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Scamming US Veterans: Efforts to Privatize Veterans Administration's Health System -by Dean Baker

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The liars are at it again, this time going after our soldiers.!"Right-wing groups are inventing scandals around the Veteran Administration’s (VA) hospitals in order to advance an agenda of privatizing the system. If there was a real reason to believe that our veterans would be better cared for under a privatized system, then it would be reasonable to support the transition.But this is the opposite of the reality. All the evidence suggests that a privatized system would make worse any problems veterans now face in getting care — and it is likely to cost more money." They took out the schools, they took out our justice system, they took out our health system and nothing can stop them when they see a way to privatize everything, and destroy the common good.

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