Can We "Privatize" the VA Without Jeopardizing National Security?

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10. Don't Privatize the VA

I was an Army Medic in Vietnam and depend heavily on the VA for my health care that is specifically targeted for my injuries in Vietnam that Medicare Doctors don't have the expertise or even sympathy to understand. Privatization only means profits for the shareholders and insurance companies. That happened locally. A former Republican mayor of my city organized a group of doctors to create a clinic that received public funds to help poor people receive health care. What they did instead was cut services to the poor people way back so they could build up a higher profit margin and then turn around and sell it to a bigger insurance company. So this was public money converted into millions of dollars of profit for Republican business men. That's exactly what would happen if they privatize the VA. The veterans would end up being secondary to the shareholders and insurance companies. And believe it or not, this local profiteering of health care was all legal because the Democratic legislators didn't imagine that anyone would be so cruel as to deny health care to poor people for a higher profit. So they didn't include any penalties for this kind of business activity. WRONG !!!