(02-02-2019, 11:16 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(02-02-2019, 09:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: Odd... when I scroll down I see you talking about 30% and 70% and 10%.
They task doctors with figuring out what percentage of your ability to work was extracted by Uncle Sam.
Everyone gets a number, nearly everybody is frustrated with their number, or someone else's number. When I ask veterans what they think of the VA, the conversation always seems to loop back to those numbers.
But when I try to describe this system you give me the old Luke Skywalker "everything you said is wrong" treatment.
A more universal healthcare system for the rest of us non-veterans would not dabble in things like these numbers.
and this is just one reason I think bringing up the VA when talking about these ideas is kind of a red herring. 
We set up the VA to say thank you to the men and women who were either drafted or volunteered to fight on our behalf. we did not set it up to be an example of what state-run healthcare could look like for everyone else.

Go back read you must (yoda). 

I’m not sure what direction you are trying to go or what twist makes anything you said correct. FYI, none of those disability ratings came from anything I wrote. Please enlighten me where disability pay was being discussed within the topic of healthcare? 

And [BLEEP] on your VA is a thank you statement! It was established to provide a level of benefits and care oversight that goes back to the Continental Congress days. The VHA has been the independent goverment body tasked with veteran universal healthcare as contracted per enlistment or commission. And yes, it has in fact been studied as a model for national healthcare.

Read if you have time: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2089116/

Sure.  The article you link to discusses that the VA could be a model for national health care.
Not that it was intended to be so.
Not that it must be so.
Just that it could be.

And, oh by the way, the article gives a lot of compliments to the VA. The article notes that the VA is outperforming private hospitals in many measurable outcomes.

the first few people who brought up the VA on this thread did so derisively. Sounds like the VA's actual performance is a mixed bag at worst.

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