Reply #6: I'd be all for single payer... [View All]

as a Viet Nam era vet, the VA has been my "health insurance" for a while, and I've gotten decent care when I needed it, but getting there has always been a problem and I don't know what I'd do if I needed emergency care. Appointments are getting more and more difficult to get.

With single payer, there would be massive adjustments in the entire health care system, and I don't know whether I would be better off or not, but I suspect most of us would ultimately be better off, if only because we could see somebody faster and closer. Some who have specific problems that the VA has handled well may not be so well off. The center I'm registered at has a great psychiatric unit that has outpatient and resident vets from Korea and Viet Nam. I don't know where they'd go under single payer, and other units have other specialties, like rehab, that could get lost in the shuffle.