Jul 1, 2010 at 7:49 AM
In a recent article from CNN, it appears a VA hospital in Missouri may have exposed 1,800 veterans to diseases such as HIV or hepatitis:
John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently mailed letters to 1,812 veterans telling them they could contract hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after visiting the medical center for dental work, said Rep. Russ Carnahan.
Read the full report here. This certainly doesn't make universal health care look any more attractive...
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Remember everyone who said that government runs healthcare very well and pointed to the VA as an example?
I certainly don't like the idea of government run healthcare any more than either of you, but let's be realistic:
Two notable incidents in a system that manages over 150 hospitals and 750 outpatient clinics is bad, but it happens. The biggest difference is probably one of scale, in that most private medical practices aren't going to be operating on quite the scale that many VA clinics do.
Not to come across as negative, but tactics like this (taking things totally out of context) is something that someone in the wrong should have to be doing. The Democrats should be doing it, most Republicans should, but the Liberty movement shouldn't because we have the truth on our side.
These are just two incidents, but the VA is absolutely notorious among veterans. My father was in Vietnam and still uses the VA. He tells horror stories about basic misdiagnoses of himself and his friends regularly -- even simple stuff like running a test and then not informing the patient that anything is wrong (when it is, and dangerously so). From everything I've ever heard and read, these problems are endemic, if often less dramatic than in this post.
Thank you for that.
In my opinion, it would have been far more effective is such information were included in the original post.
The key point is not that such a thin wouldn't happen in a private hospital. Rather, it is less likely. Why? Incentives. If a private hospital goofed up like this, people would be reluctant to patronize said hospital and it would go out of business in short order besides paying damages, etc. Also, the hospital's insurers, if any, would have stringent inspection/safety standards to minimize such incidents.
On the other hand, do you really think the VA hospital would go out of business? It's more likely that the hospital would get MORE taxpayer funds to 'rectify' the situation. Failure is being rewarded, in a sense. Think what happened to the SEC, FDIC etc. They didn't prevent banks from failing or catch Bernie Madoff but hey, they got more funds.
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