@charlescwcooke pulls off the most epic Twitter backhand you will see today.

This is the kind of backhand that uses the hand that wears the most rings. Because chipping a tooth is the goal.

For the benefit of those following at home:

  • Ezra Klein’s Vox, 2014: Report: Veterans in Phoenix wait 115 days for health care
  • Ezra Klein, 2009:  “If you ordered America’s different health systems worst-functioning to best, it would look like this: individual insurance market, employer-based insurance market, Medicare, Veterans Health Administration.”

And, remember: according to Ezra Klein back then if you want to see what socialized medicine looks like, look no further than the VA.  Because that’s what the VA offers.  It’s government-owned, government-operated healthcare.

…So noted.

Moe Lane

5 thoughts on “@charlescwcooke pulls off the most epic Twitter backhand you will see today.”

  1. And what’s sad is that in 2009 there was no excuse for saying that – if you knew anyone who was stuck in the VA system, well, ever, it’s always been terrible.

    1. The VA is terrible by design. Monopolies cannot help but be terrible.
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      A well (meaning “heavily”) regulated monopoly is slow to change or react because changes must go through so many layers of oversight to see the light of day.
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      A poorly (meaning “heavily and not particularly well”) regulated monopoly has all the downsides of a well-regulated one with the additional problem of potentially being run like a personal piggy bank for the enrichment of its’ management and/or regulators.
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      This cat remains convinced that the solution involves privatization, but cannot figure out what D.C.-based agency enough former armed services folks would trust to keep paying for the private insurance policies.
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      Mew

      1. I’d like to see 100% of the executive and legislative branch of our government moved to it, with it made a felony to give them preferential treatment, and an inspector general who gets paid by the person he puts in jail…

        1. How about funding the IG’s office in part by giving them a share of the retirement accounts of those who are convicted? (or the equivalent administrative result)
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          Used to be that federal services types would lose their retirement if they were “dirty” .. that’d be something we could bring back that would have *teeth*. (oh, and that it’d be a tire iron to the mouth for SEIU and AFSCME would just be a nice fringe benefit)
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          Mew

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