Comments on: Ready Fire Aim Health Care Proposal http://veteranveritas.com/?p=157 Hang out for combat veterans and families. Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: medicareblogger http://veteranveritas.com/?p=157#comment-525 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:13:04 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas/2009/10/23/ready-fire-aim-health-care-proposal/#comment-525 When retired veterans on Tricare reach 65, they must use Medicare as their primary health insurance.  Tricare acts as a supplement to fill the gaps in Medicare. 

I belive the VA system, with hospitals and doctors on staff, is like the Canadian system. What is messed up about the American healthcare system is that doctors and hospitals are businesses and charge a fee for every service they provide.  The Mayo Clinics, which operate like VA hospitals, are considered the model for solving America’s out-of-control healthcare costs.

Because we are a capitalist society, lots of people believe healthcare should be a for-profit business.  Of course, if we were truly a democracy, the majority of Americans, who believe healthcare should not be for-profit and everyone should get healthcare, would prevail. 

Heaven forbid we should become socialists!  How about we just try being a true democracy and let the majority rule instead of the ten percent with all the money who run big pharma, insurance companies and wall street (and our government).

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