Posted on Dec 11, 2019
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Two articles speak to issues specific to the military healthcare system:
- Dec 2017 in JAMA - is entitled Transforming the Military Healthcare System
- Feb 2013 in Military Medicine magazine - is entitled Leveraging the Military Healthcare System as a Laboratory for Health Care Reform
These are interesting companion articles to consider. So, the question is simple:
Do you believe that over the next 10-20 years the US healthcare system will move toward this kind of model for the nation? Why or Why Not?
The attached poll is designed to gauge RP members understanding of the VHA VISNs approach and seek the RP family's insight regarding the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about both the VHA and the non-VHA healthcare patient experience.
IMPORTANT: For all that respond to this post please be respectfully of those who share their thoughts from their unique perspectives. Also, please present your narrative arguments in the form of clearly stating the problem as you have observed it and making recommendations for resolution of any negative experiences that can or should be applied across nation either in the VHA, Commercial Healthcare or both systems!
COL Mikel J. Burroughs; COL Lee Flemming; COL Bill Barrett; Lt Col Charlie Brown; LTC Stephen C.; LCdr (Rabbah) Rona Matlow; Maj William "Bill" Price; MAJ James Arnold;LTC Jason Mackay; Capt Dwayne Conyers; Maj Marty Hogan; CMSgt (Join to see); SMSGT Gerald "Doc" Thomas; SCPO Morris Ramsey; MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi; SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth; Sgt Elizabeth Scheck; MSgt Paul Connors (Publishing)
- Dec 2017 in JAMA - is entitled Transforming the Military Healthcare System
- Feb 2013 in Military Medicine magazine - is entitled Leveraging the Military Healthcare System as a Laboratory for Health Care Reform
These are interesting companion articles to consider. So, the question is simple:
Do you believe that over the next 10-20 years the US healthcare system will move toward this kind of model for the nation? Why or Why Not?
The attached poll is designed to gauge RP members understanding of the VHA VISNs approach and seek the RP family's insight regarding the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about both the VHA and the non-VHA healthcare patient experience.
IMPORTANT: For all that respond to this post please be respectfully of those who share their thoughts from their unique perspectives. Also, please present your narrative arguments in the form of clearly stating the problem as you have observed it and making recommendations for resolution of any negative experiences that can or should be applied across nation either in the VHA, Commercial Healthcare or both systems!
COL Mikel J. Burroughs; COL Lee Flemming; COL Bill Barrett; Lt Col Charlie Brown; LTC Stephen C.; LCdr (Rabbah) Rona Matlow; Maj William "Bill" Price; MAJ James Arnold;LTC Jason Mackay; Capt Dwayne Conyers; Maj Marty Hogan; CMSgt (Join to see); SMSGT Gerald "Doc" Thomas; SCPO Morris Ramsey; MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi; SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth; Sgt Elizabeth Scheck; MSgt Paul Connors (Publishing)
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Edited 5 y ago
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I think they would like to use the military/VA system but it will prove to be too expensive. Remember that the military is basically young people and the biggest users of healthcare are the aged in the last five years of life.
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SSgt Richard Kensinger
And those of us in this age range are way too costly and a burden to society. We have enhanced the quantity of life, but not the quality.
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SPC Kurt Hesselden
As long as the VA can drag out their treatment schedule of us old farts till we're pretty well forced to use medicare and pay our co-pays to get decades old shrapnel dug out at civilian facilities by civilian doctors I guess they'll do ok. Problem will be if there's no fallback from the VA system no matter how expensive. VA level of care and Doctors are top notch, you just have to be able to get to them.
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LCpl Laurence Puco
I see that it is a lot longer than the last "5 years of there life", actually a lot longer than that, more like the last 10-15 years of there life!
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We don’t have a high enough Motrin production capacity in the US to have everyone on military style health care.
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MAJ (Join to see)
Budweiser would also have to stop producing as much beer so they could produce more canned water for the 800 mg ibuprofen and water cure that we have in the military.
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I pray that as a country that we never become the military model in terms of healthcare. Sure, it sounds all great, but it's just something else for the government to control in our lives. We're already taxed for anything and everything, and this would just give the government another reason to raise our taxes. Remember in the U.S., it's illegal for a hospital emergency room to turn you away, even if you have no means to pay.
Obviously, this is a very deep issue and I don't understand the full complexities of it. I just think of the red tape I've had to go through with the VA, and the struggles I had while on active-duty with healthcare. It's not something I'd ever want to go back to.
Obviously, this is a very deep issue and I don't understand the full complexities of it. I just think of the red tape I've had to go through with the VA, and the struggles I had while on active-duty with healthcare. It's not something I'd ever want to go back to.
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SSgt Richard Kensinger
The sad truth is that current stakeholders will never surrender their pieces of the monetary action.And physician groups especially will never, ever commit to a socialized, govt. endorsed HC system.
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