[quote=@mdk]
It's a riddle. Bear in mind, collectives in the past have not been kind to the differently-abled -- we were offed along with the other undesirables in just about every genocide in history. Frankly we're more trusting than we ought to be, and any disabled person with any kind of experience in social healthcare (be it VA, NHS, or elsewhere) has the scars to prove it.
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No matter how shitty your experiences with the VA, implying socialised medicine is in anyway comparable to communist genocide is bullshit. I'm disabled and have used the NHS my entire life. I have scars from two life saving operations and one test for a life threatening illness, they were all performed without complications, so while I literally have scars I also have zero complaints. It's also nice not to pay for the medication that stops me having constant seizures. You can also pay for private medicine if you'd prefer here, it's not taken off the table as an option. Surely if you're going to compete with free healthcare it you have to work pretty hard too, which is to the benefit of their patients.