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In reply to the discussion: Eric Shinseki is out of a job today because... [View all]SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)Otherwise, you would just provide a link instead of spending all this time writing long, vacuous replies.
The way it works at DU is if you come up with a figure and someone calls bullshit on it because it sounds ridiculous in light of known facts, it is up to you to prove it, not others to disprove it.
I told you why I believed your 67% figure is made up. There's 1,700 VA facilities. 67% of 1,700 is 1,139. There is no way that many facilities are doing this when the MSM has only been able to point to a few (most notably, Phoenix, Atlanta and one in Virginia). Also, studies show VA healthcare has been consistently very popular with vets, and in 2012 the RAND corp found the VA system delivers care as good or better than its private counterparts. See :
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/20/1300760/-Privatizing-VA-health-care-would-be-the-greatest-tragedy-of-all