http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17709628/site/newsweek/


why are our veterans not getting an "insurance card" or something of that nature so that they can seek out the best treatment possible?

these low lifes that work at these places should be fired... too bad they never will be


and you people want socialized healthcare, lol... this is a prime example of why NOT to have it

3/22/2007 8:57:42 AM

wooot, great thread

3/27/2007 10:27:20 AM

i tell u what i cant stand...i hate how the dems are so hell bent on this withdrawl date...i mean its not like we can just take everyone out anyway- we are gonna have to station some troops there...maybe not like as many as there are at the demilitarized zone in NK but close

3/27/2007 11:46:42 AM

you people?

3/27/2007 1:38:44 PM

you people is such a fitting term in TSB

[Edited on March 27, 2007 at 4:28 PM. Reason : l]

3/27/2007 4:28:34 PM

It's all relative. Read Ron Kovic's "Born on the Fourth of July"

3/27/2007 4:40:11 PM

Quote :

"and you people want socialized healthcare, lol... this is a prime example of why NOT to have it"

socialized medicine has nothing to do with the VA. Under socialized medicine, you are not forced to go to a certain hospital or dr.

3/27/2007 5:54:39 PM

but you're still expected to put your health in the hands of a government employee that really... just doesn't give a fuck

because they have job security

I don't want any part of it


why don't they issue our troops insurance cards to seek out medical treatment at quality facilities

they either don't want them to get good treatment or they think they're too stupid to find it somewhere so it has to be provided by the nanny state

either way is pretty shitty

3/27/2007 5:59:59 PM

Quote :

"but you're still expected to put your health in the hands of a government employee that really... just doesn't give a fuck because they have job security I don't want any part of it"

the doctors and nurses don't become government employees just as they aren't hmo employees now.

Quote :

"why don't they issue our troops insurance cards to seek out medical treatment at quality facilities they either don't want them to get good treatment or they think they're too stupid to find it somewhere so it has to be provided by the nanny state either way is pretty shitty"

Because the government has a policy of not wanting the public to see the grizzly side effect of war. That and VA hospitals in terms of active duty soldiers are patch them back up and ship them back out type places and private drs would prevent a lot of these people being redeployed.

3/27/2007 6:16:42 PM

Quote :

"i tell u what i cant stand...i hate how the dems are so hell bent on this withdrawl date...i mean its not like we can just take everyone out anyway- we are gonna have to station some troops there...maybe not like as many as there are at the demilitarized zone in NK but close "

can you ever make a single post without 'like' in it?

3/27/2007 6:45:44 PM

Virginia sucks anyway

3/27/2007 7:48:11 PM

Veterans Affairs, not virginia.

3/27/2007 9:33:58 PM

Quote :

"we are gonna have to station some troops there"

why troops? other than marines to guard the embassy why do we need combat troops inside iraq?

back on topic of VA hospitals, did everyone read this article?
http://listings.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A46354

3/27/2007 10:50:33 PM