The truth about VA healthcare

Warning, facts ahead. Repugnantans can go back to their fantasy world. Yes, it is socialized medicine and it works. It needs to remain so and dump the privatization scheme, proven to be an utter failure.

"The editorial board of the Washington Post  noted a while back that the VA system 'as a whole outperforms the rest of the health care system by just about every metric. Surveys also show that veterans give VA hospitals and clinics a higher customer satisfaction than patients give private-sector hospitals. The assessment was consistent with a RAND Corp. study that found in nearly every category, 'VA patients received consistently better care across the board, including screening, diagnosis, treatment, and access to follow-up.'”

"Two years ago, Alicia Mundy wrote a piece for the Washington Monthly, which highlighted 'a mountain of independent evidence that shows that 'while the VA has an assortment of serious problems, it continues to outperform the rest of the U.S. health sector on nearly every metric of quality – a fact that ought to raise fundamental questions about the wisdom of outsourcing VA care to private providers.'”