Veterans Health Care: Why It's the Wrong Time to Privatize

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In the wake of this midterm election season, with all its dramatic and rhetorical pledges to America, we should not lose sight of the pledges we have already made. We have promised as a nation to provide our disabled veterans with the best health services that modern medicine has to offer. We need to honor that promise to our veterans, and we need to pay the tab as readily as we funded the wars that harmed them. Calls for privatization of veterans' health benefits, touted by many fiscal conservatives as a way of tamping down big government, seems an odd way for us to try and meet those obligations.
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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. In my view it's always the wrong time to privatize.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. How is this even part of the national debate? It should be unmentionable.

Inconceivable. Veterans love their VA. I am really worried when a so called "liberal" media outlet brings up the idea---even if they seem to criticize it...because it gives a measure of legitimacy to the issue. It makes it seem like someone besides insurance companies and hospital CEOs want to see it happen.

Can we get DU to pledge right not to "just say no" to a privatized VA?