For years, progressives have extolled the virtues of the VA hospital system. Ignoring the veterans who have actually been subjected to its tender mercies, advocates of government-run health care doggedly insist that the VA provides better health care than the private system. Well, they may have trouble selling that BS after this debacle:
The Department of Veterans Affairs last month sent a letter to 1,812 patients informing them that could have been exposed to HIV and other deadly viruses because of dental equipment that was insufficiently sterilized over a period of 13 months.
And it gets worse. The problem was discovered in March, but instead of taking immediate action, the Obama administration stalled around until Obamacare passed. They took more than three months to send out the letters to the affected vets. The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), is hopping mad:
It’s outrageous, one, that this happens, but even worse is this secretive, almost cover-up mode that they go into when something like this happens … We should be much more caring not only about the procedures but the way we deal with them after they’re known.
Filner is calling for “accountability,” hinting that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki should be fired. But Shinseki’s termination isn’t the cure. He’s just a symptom. The disease is government-run health care. This kind of thing is all too common in Great Britain, Canada, and every other country afflicted with state-run medicine.
The Veterans Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on the issue next week, but you won’t see much about it the MSM. All of those bloggers and journalists who feigned outrage at the Walter Reed debacle will be as silent as the tomb on this. Why? Because government health care is politicized health care, and they don’t want to provide ammo for the Obamacare repeal movement.
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