About twenty vets are committing suicide per day (if we’re to believe the VA). And want to know what single payer would look like? Look at the VA.
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About twenty vets are committing suicide per day (if we’re to believe the VA). And want to know what single payer would look like? Look at the VA.
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Argument that the rate for veterans is about where you’d expect it to be for the overall demographic:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/02/but-there-isnt-an-epidemic-of-suicide-in-the-us-military/#3d1a6f402d84
Institute single payer for the general population and the number of patients with shrapnel wounds will increase!!!!!!!!
Reversing cause and effect much, Bob-1? Besides, it’s not shrapnel, it’s TBI and PTSD more than than anything else. But just wait until hip replacements are delayed again and again while at the same time opioids are are either denied or prescribed in such small quantities as to be useless against the level of pain experienced, all to fight the dreaded Opioid Epidemic. If suicide levels don’t go up, it’s only because acidental overdoes have. At least Jolly Old England dispenses the pain meds liberally.
Not very funny.
The difference is that with single-payer the suicides will be “assisted.”
My first thought when I read that headline was, “is that higher or lower than patients at the VA?”