During Healthcare Meetings, Veterans Praise Va Care.

[allan]

During Healthcare Meetings, Veterans Praise VA Care.

On its website KARE-TV Minneapolis, MN (8/16, Croman) noted that on Friday, during a town hall meeting on healthcare held in Willmar, Minnesota, veteran Larry Paulson "said he believes the Veterans Administration hospital system is a government run health care program that works well and could serve as a model." Paulson, who "said the VA hospital in Saint Cloud runs like a top," added, "Talk about pre-

existing conditions, look at the shape of these guys who are coming back missing arms, missing legs, their brains fried. Yet the VA deals with that day after day. Don't tell me the government can't run a program that works!"

Similarly, the Des Moines (IA) Register (8/16, Beaumont, Clayworth) noted that at a public meeting on healthcare held recently in Iowa, veteran Bill Wallace said he gets "really good treatment" at the "VA hospital in Iowa City." He told others in attendance at the meeting that while they may not "like government," they should "try to go the middle path on this."

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=822113

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090816/NEWS09/908160334/1001/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/article8299.html

[allan]

They can make it function. They just can't keep the suicide rates from climbing without playing with the figures, get meds out on time or causing toxic combinations of meds.