Originally Posted by SteveZ

To "scale up" the VA is like "scaling up" Lamborghini to make 10 million cars a year. The VA is not "The Villages Hospital" or "Orlando Regional Medical Center." The VA deals with a clientele different than all other hospitals. VA patients do not include folk under 18, and those who are between 18 and 40 have suffered heinous trauma requiring considerable rehabilitative care and support. Almost all the over-40 group includes the 18-40 folk still alive and others whose health conditions have worsened due to experiences unique to military service, most often from combat.

It's not just "make more copies of the VA hospital system" and distribute it everywhere.

And again, we already have the U.S. Public Health Service, with exactly what the national health care folk want. It provides health care service womb-to-casket at various facilities across the nation to include Indian Reservations, DHS detention centers, and some unlikely sites within a ew cities.

I never understand why folk want to simply ignore that the U.S. Public Health Service exists. There's national health care being practiced.