As to how a national healthcare would perform, all I can say is how can you think they'll treat you any better than they do our veterans? Have you ever seen a VA hospital? Keep in mind, our VA in New Orleans is STILL shut down from Katrina.
First, the government runs the entire military healthcare system, including the VA, from providers to facilities. The healthcare bill has absolutely zero provisions for the government to be making any significant medical decisions; they'll merely be facilitating the purchase of insurance and the distribution of patient records and mandating base levels of coverage.
Second, the reason that the VA doesn't work as well as it ought to is because it's underfunded. There isn't really anything to underfund in the current bill.
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