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 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:32:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 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. 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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