Government Health Care: An Oxymoron, as Again Shwon By Government Administration of Military Health Care

"Military intelligence" is perhaps the most famous "example" used to "explain" what an oxymoron is. A little unfair, and I think (as a person who served in the army) that the more accurate cliche' is: "There is the right way. There is the wrong way. And then there is the army way."


It turns out that "military health care", ore "government health care", is the true oxymoron.


Yes, an item of news today was that the military health care system, run by the government, is FAiLING--failing in the sme sort of way you can expect a new government health care overhaul to fail.


Military personnel and their families are unable to get appointments without long delays. Further, 1/3 of all miliary health care is being provided by PRIVATE health care providers.


Actually, even when I was in the army, and afterward when I represented military personnel stationed at Ft. Bliss, the government has NEVER been confident in its ability to provide complete medical services to military personnel and their dependents. The government has ALWAYS used the private health care system as a backstop.


That is pretty much true of Medicare and Medicaid, in the sense that the government gets away with a certain amount of intolerable pressure on "costs", because the private providers of health care can try to make it up with highter fees for services NOT limited by Medicaid or Medicare rules. Notice that if the government pretty much takes over all health care, which IS the goal of Obama and leftist Democrats, the private outlet for mitigating problems with the government will not longer exist. We will ALL be at the mercy of the government, and we can ALL expect reduced care, higher costs, and intolerable delays.


Multiple items of news this week have again proven that this will be the case.