Hello T. A. Gardner,
Who would want to discuss the level of care if it shot holes in a view that government can't do anything right?
And yet here is an example of the government doing something right.
If we get into that, the level of care from government facilities is generally not as good as the private sector and the level of service is execrable. I don't know how much use of government run facilities you've experienced, but all of the ones I have dealt with either personally or by use of someone I know, have uniformly been:
Overworked. They see far more patients per provider and spend less time with each patient.
Have incredibly long wait times. You are there for hours waiting to be seen. If you need multiple things by different providers, that too involves long waits.
They don't do a good job of keeping you informed.
Much of the service is pro forma. That is they give you cookie cutter recommendations. You have something odd, different, or the like--you'll probably die before they figure it out.
With the military, rank has its privileges. The higher your rank the faster you get service and the more competent the persons giving you service are.
The quality of the facilities are very much hit and miss. You can get a good facility or provider or you can get complete incompetence. You don't get to choose. It's simply what it is where you are. Most facilities are somewhere between average and mediocre.
If they screw up, you have little recourse. You can try suing them but you'll probably go bankrupt before you see a nickel.
The most recent scandal in government run medicine was the VA. You can look up the incompetence on that one for yourself.
It isn't that the government doesn't do anything right so much as it is the government doesn't do anything really well.
