Mittens sympathized with the service members' difficulties in DC today with the Department of Veterans Affairs. One vet described the VA as "adversarial."
Romney went on to suggest some sort of a voucher system to make the VA more competitive.
Auston Thompson, a Marine veteran of the Iraq War, told TPM after the session that privatization would likely lead to problems.
Eventually it would become too much of a nuisance. Private health care is already so expensive, you'd need some kind of health care reform to make it work.
Rightardia would point out that privatizing part of the VA would be expensive and it would have little effect on disability ratings. Building more local VA clinics called Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) are a better idea. The VA can also contract out some medical services.
The Major discovered that the VA medical center (hospital) Triage clinics are overwhelmed and understaffed and care is marginal there. However, the medical specialists at the VA medical centers are often excellent.
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