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Ideologically Inconvenient Successfully Socialised Military Medicine

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The VA runs the largest integrated health-care system in the [United States] … this government-managed health-care program–socialized medicine on a small scale–is beating the marketplace … Males 65 years and older receiving VA care had about a 40% lower risk of death than those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, whose care is provided through private health plans or HMOs … The VA’s cost per patient has remained steady during the past 10 years. The cost of private care has jumped about 40% in that same period … Congress has no plans to enlarge the scope of veterans’ health care … it’s becoming more and more “ideologically inconvenient for some to have such a stellar health-delivery system being run by the government”.

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