New Legislation Would Let Vets Get Care Outside the VA
9th June 2016
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, on Tuesday introduced a new bill in the House to completely overhaul how the nation’s soldiers receive care from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
The solution: Start turning the sole, and worst, example of the federal government’s single-payer system back to the private sector.
About fargin time. The VA system is the poster child proving that government-provided health care would be a disaster.
The “Caring for our Heroes in the 21st Century Act” would launch a “Veterans Accountable Care Organization” to run the VA’s health care facilities. It would help create a new voucher system whereby soldiers could use VA funding to get care from the private sector. Specifically, it would enroll all new veterans into VetsCare Choice, which covers private health care, and it would let already-enrolled veterans opt in or stay with their existing coverage.
In other words, Obamacare without the lies.