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VA: Great care for me

By
Louis Cayer
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 — Issue 163

RE: “Single-payer health care works: Just visit a VA hospital and see” [Viewpoint, July 18]:

As a disabled Vietnam veteran, I agree wholeheartedly with Robert Miller. The VA has provided great care for me since I first entered a VA hospital in Boston in 1969.

The White River Junction VA is exceptional in the care they give our veterans. And as Mr. Miller states, the VA is not profit-driven so care is what its staff concentrates on.

As for those who think that the Affordable Care Act is a bad solution to health care, they need to look more closely at what our government has been doing for our veterans over the years. Maybe this is the system that should be used for all Americans.

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We’ve become a business with a community problem

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By
Kate Kenner

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By
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Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

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