11th dimensional chess and privatizing Vets' health benefits...

The Obama Administration has shot down the idea of partially privatizing veterans health care after apparently having considered it.  Below are some comments that appeared on Talking Points Memo. 

The comments seem like plausible suppositions.  I always suspected the scary byzantine political machinations depicted on West Wing were to a large degree fictional intensifications of reality...Reality can't really be that nastily complex, can it?  But it really seems to be.

This might not have ever been something they intended to do at all. I wouldn't be surprised if this was floated to help bolster the administration's case for public health care.
Thoughts anyone?
Posted by holyhandgrenaid
March 18, 2009 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink

Interesting theory. Obama always seems to be three jumps ahead of everyone, so you may be right. The guy never ceases to amaze me. It does seem like they may be stearing toward medicare for all in baby steps. This might have been one of those steps.
Posted by Michael A in reply to a comment from holyhandgrenaid
March 18, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
 
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