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No, it's government-subsidized privatized healthcare.
Socialized healthcare wouldn't have a profit-driven middleman involved.
And you trust the government to manage a socialized healthcare system for hundreds of millions of people without any corruption or profit motive?
You've made it quite clear to me that you have never had to deal with the VA.
As someone that has to deal with the VA on the regular, it does work.
They have given me the mental health care, medical care, and medication that I need to live a normal life.
The VA is by no means perfect, but many people complain about the VA, when THEY are the problem for not following up, or maintaining appointments or even following general instructions.
Yes, it's a complicated annoying system, but it can and does work. They will drop you quick as fuck if you don't keep up with your shit.
I have had a few bad experiences with the VA as well to be fair, but two things happened, I learned how the system worked and I started going to a different location and had a completely different experience, with a Dr that actually seems to give a shit, unlike the civilian Dr that kept trying to get me to make 5+ appointments for an issue that should have only taken two, just to squeeze more money out of me.
So yeah, I'm sure the VA is corrupt just like everything else but they are one of the main reasons I don't have a bullet in my head right now.
No, I haven't had to deal with the VA.
But I did move from the US to Colombia. And I've received more thorough care from the national healthcare system here than I ever did in the US. Instead of simply treating my symptoms (which is the general practice in the US), the doctors here actually found the underlying conditions that I've apparently been living with for years, possibly even decades.
The healthcare system here is concerned with keeping the population healthy instead of increasing shareholder value. It takes a bit longer than in the US, but I have the peace of mind of knowing that (1) my doctor isn't getting kickbacks for prescribing me a specific medication, and (2) regardless of what is needed for my treatment, I won't go bankrupt paying for it.
So, while I don't necessarily believe that a government can manage much of anything without any corruption or profit motive, I do have some evidence that a government can manage healthcare in a way that provides greater benefit to its citizens than the privatized healthcare industry in the US.