Although the people who run congress and most of the “news” media seem unable to absorb the obvious lesson of the Walter Reed scandal, the veterans whose care has been entrusted to government-run hospitals are not so dense. Mary Katherine Ham interviewed a number of them at the VFW convention and this is the kind […]
Now we are told that Jim Nicholson, a Bush appointee, is part of a dastardly plot to neglect the soldiers being treated at Walter Reed. Sigh … It seems obvious that most of the mass media are determined to miss the point of the Walter Reed scandal. There’s a kind of projected solipsism at work […]
Investors Business Daily has a good piece on the Walter Reed mess. Here’s the crucial point:
The universal health care system [the Democrats] so adore will be painfully similar to the poor care found at military hospitals. In other words, veterans’ health care is HillaryCare … It’s a system that’s telling anyone with ears to hear […]
Dean Barnet is indisputably correct when he writes:
What happened at Walter Reed is a national disgrace, and leaves an unerasable blemish on the Bush administration. To pretend otherwise would do a disservice to our returning soldiers who have suffered at Walter Reed.
However, to turn this into yet another shrill debate about Bush is to completely […]
As MM points out, the latest line of BS from the socialized medicine crowd is that the problems at Walter Reed are actually the result of that most heinous of all crimes, “privatization.” And even worse, the facility awarded a contract to a company whose staff includes a former employee of (gasp) Halliburton.Come on guys, […]
I find it amusing that advocates of government-controlled health care are so touchy about the term “socialized medicine.” It reminds me of the used car dealers who use euphemisms like “pre-owned.” Now, why do they do that? Hmm …. could it be that they’re trying to pull one over on a gullible public? Sounds like […]
The real significance of the Walter Reed scandal isn’t the latest resignation, and it isn’t limited to that hospital.
For years, advocates of socialized medicine have been extolling the virtues of the VA hospital system, ignoring the collective cri du coeur (No! Don’t do it!) from veterans who have actually been subjected to its tender mercies.
Single-payer […]
