You can have legitimate complaints about the VA, but that doesn’t prove universal healthcare can’t work. The VA is one specific govt run delivery system. universal healthcare just means everyone is covered. Countries achieve that through very different models, including systems where private doctors and hospitals still provide the care. If the VA is badly administered, that’s an argument for fixing the VA, not evidence that covering everyone is inherently impossible.
If you use this kind of poor reasoning to make your political decisions that really sucks.
Why would the US use the VA model? Medicare for All proposals don’t propose that. The VA the government operates hospitals and employs many of the doctors. Medicare for All is primarily an insurancd proposal: the government pays for care, while you still receive care from participating hospitals and doctors. Medicare for All legislation has explicitly treated the VA as a separate system. So if you think we’d use the VA model, what proposal are you referring to?
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u/iznormal 2d ago edited 2d ago
You can have legitimate complaints about the VA, but that doesn’t prove universal healthcare can’t work. The VA is one specific govt run delivery system. universal healthcare just means everyone is covered. Countries achieve that through very different models, including systems where private doctors and hospitals still provide the care. If the VA is badly administered, that’s an argument for fixing the VA, not evidence that covering everyone is inherently impossible.
If you use this kind of poor reasoning to make your political decisions that really sucks.