ocean515
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I suspect the VA and Medicare are on the chopping block, along with Social Security if they can get away with. This is the GOP dream.
Also, the EPA Consumer Protection Bureau and financial regulation entities will be gutted, along with gutting anything that protects the people or impedes the monied and their corporations. Ditto for employment protections like minimum wages, overtime, OSHA, or unions.
Oh, let's not forget the expansive tax cuts for the monied and their corporations that will be paid by the working men & women of this country.
Essentially, it will a long step towards the completion of the third-worlding of America for workers and employees, and an unbelievable financial and regulatory utopia for the very monied and their corporate and other legally structured entities.
I've been calling-out this GOP dream for decades, with many dismissing me. Now, I'd bet my bottom dollar we are going to head significantly down the path I warned of. Think, "Kansas".
Fair enough.
It's starting to sound like ObamaCare in that regard, and I'm worried it's going to be just as bad - if not worse!
"President-elect Donald Trump is considering moving the Department of Veterans Affairs toward privatization, a transition team official said Wednesday, a policy decision major veterans’ groups have said they would oppose.
Mr. Trump is considering changing the department to allow some veterans to bypass the VA heath-care system completely and get care exclusively from private-sector hospitals and clinics, the official said. It is an option that could give veterans full choice over their health care, but which many veterans groups argue is the first step toward privatization and one that will reduce the quality of health care over the long term."
Donald Trump Considers Moving VA Toward Privatization - WSJ
The VA definitely needs attention, but I don't think writing vouchers to bypass the problems is the right way to go. I don't have the answer on how to fix the VA, but I know ignoring it and writing a check isn't a fix.
If you can alleviate the load on the VA system proper, it can help fix some of the problems.
I suspect the VA and Medicare are on the chopping block, along with Social Security if they can get away with. This is the GOP dream.
Also, the EPA Consumer Protection Bureau and financial regulation entities will be gutted, along with gutting anything that protects the people or impedes the monied and their corporations. Ditto for employment protections like minimum wages, overtime, OSHA, or unions.
Oh, let's not forget the expansive tax cuts...
The government sucks at virtually everything. They don't have to account for waste or performance.
"President-elect Donald Trump is considering moving the Department of Veterans Affairs toward privatization, a transition team official said Wednesday, a policy decision major veterans’ groups have said they would oppose.
Mr. Trump is considering changing the department to allow some veterans to bypass the VA heath-care system completely and get care exclusively from private-sector hospitals and clinics, the official said. It is an option that could give veterans full choice over their health care, but which many veterans groups argue is the first step toward privatization and one that will reduce the quality of health care over the long term."
Donald Trump Considers Moving VA Toward Privatization - WSJ
The VA definitely needs attention, but I don't think writing vouchers to bypass the problems is the right way to go. I don't have the answer on how to fix the VA, but I know ignoring it and writing a check isn't a fix.
"President-elect Donald Trump is considering moving the Department of Veterans Affairs toward privatization, a transition team official said Wednesday, a policy decision major veterans’ groups have said they would oppose.
Mr. Trump is considering changing the department to allow some veterans to bypass the VA heath-care system completely and get care exclusively from private-sector hospitals and clinics, the official said. It is an option that could give veterans full choice over their health care, but which many veterans groups argue is the first step toward privatization and one that will reduce the quality of health care over the long term."
Donald Trump Considers Moving VA Toward Privatization - WSJ
The VA definitely needs attention, but I don't think writing vouchers to bypass the problems is the right way to go. I don't have the answer on how to fix the VA, but I know ignoring it and writing a check isn't a fix.
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