Surprise: Government Health Care Isn’t Working Out So Well For The Troops

The government health care provided to our soldiers and veterans isn’t the same thing as nationalized health care. Those soldiers/veterans are or were employees of the government and their health benefits are part of their compensation package. But that being said, when we start talking about the government administering our health care for us there are lessons we can learn from just how inefficient the military/VA health care system is.

Gates: injured troops face too much bureaucracy
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that troops injured in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to face too many bureaucratic hurdles.
Paperwork alone for them can be “frustrating, adversarial, and unnecessarily complex,” Gates said.

Anyone who has ever dealt with other variations of government health care, like Medicare for instance, knows just how difficult the bureaucrats and their mind-numbing piles of paperwork are to deal with. In fact, Medicare is so confusing that pretty much every Senator in Congress has a staffer dedicated to handling complaints about Medicare and doling out assistance.
So when the government tells us that they can run our health care more efficiently for us, keep in mind the health care they already run. There’s nothing efficient or inexpensive about it.