Comments on: WALTER REED: THE OBVIOUS LESSON http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: C M Hughes, MD http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/#comment-8060 C M Hughes, MD Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:27:26 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/#comment-8060 OK, Walter reed is actually a DOD facility and not part of the VA system. So is the Bethesda Naval Hospital, I am chagrined to admit. I thought Bethesda had both. And outsourcing, not socialized medicine, was the problem: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0307/030507m1.htm Cheers, OK, Walter reed is actually a DOD facility and not part of the VA system. So is the Bethesda Naval Hospital, I am chagrined to admit. I thought Bethesda had both.

And outsourcing, not socialized medicine, was the problem:
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0307/030507m1.htm

Cheers,

]]> By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/#comment-10 Catron Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:25:10 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/#comment-10 The emptiness of your position is demonstrated by your deployment of ad hominem cheap shots in lieu of any intelligent response to my basic point. In reality, “single-payer� and “universal� health care are nothing more than euphemisms for “socialized medicine.� From the perspective of the patients who would receive “care� in such a system, these distinctions would be utterly meaningless.

]]> By: over my med body! » Health Care BS Spouts BS http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/#comment-9 over my med body! » Health Care BS Spouts BS Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:10:32 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/02/walter-reed-the-obvious-lesson/#comment-9 [...] It’s really kind of sad/scary/amusing that a guy that runs a blog called “Health Care BS” and claims to have spent 20 years in health care finance doesn’t know the difference between a single-payer system and a national health service. [...] [...] It’s really kind of sad/scary/amusing that a guy that runs a blog called “Health Care BS” and claims to have spent 20 years in health care finance doesn’t know the difference between a single-payer system and a national health service. [...]

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