Trump Said to Discuss Veterans Care Overhaul With Hospital CEOs
Source: Bloomberg: Politics
by Zachary Tracer , Shannon Pettypiece , and Jennifer Epstein
December 28, 2016, 4:45 PM EST December 28, 2016, 6:46 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump met at his Florida resort on Wednesday with leaders of top U.S. nonprofit hospital systems to discuss overhauling health care for veterans, including by allowing them to more readily visit hospitals outside the Veterans Affairs system.
The group weighed public-private partnerships and other options that would make it possible for veterans to go to any hospital for care, inside the VA system or outside of it, a senior transition official said after the meeting. Some veterans advocacy groups have cautioned against expanding access to care outside the government-run hospitals under the Veterans Health Administration, fearing the system may be weakened by privatization.
The VA system spends about $70 billion a year on medical care, offering a potential windfall to private hospitals if more veterans are allowed into their beds.
Perlmutter has been friends with Trump for years, and his wife, Laura, sits on the president-elect’s inauguration-planning committee. They divide their time between homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, much like Trump, and spent Thanksgiving with him at Mar-a-Lago.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-28/trump-gathers-top-hospital-ceos-in-florida-for-health-care-chat
They'll starve the VA of patients, and claim it's disorganized, a failure, etc, and end it. Same strategy as the public school "reform." Write tests no child can pass, underfund the schools, claim they're "a disaster" and take them over, making schools privately held so that share holders can put your school tax $$ right into their own pockets.
Same GOP playbook, every time. And yet, we don't ever catch on.
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