GOP Rep. Proposes Health Care Vouchers so Vets Can Opt Out of VA Health System

GOP Rep. Proposes Health Care Vouchers So Vets Can Opt Out of VA Health System (Washington Free Beacon)

Rep. Andy Harris (R., Md.) is a Navy vet and a medical doctor who spent years at the VA. He has probably forgotten more about health care issues for our veterans than most congressmen will ever know. And he wants vets to have a choice so they can opt out of the government-run bureaucracy and access the private health care system.

This morning I interviewed Harris on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., and cited my Washington Free Beacon colleague Andrew Stiles’ terrific articleexposing how liberal pundits and politicians held the VA health system up as a “huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health reform.”

Harris scoffed at the notion and instead proclaimed his support for letting vets out of the government system that has so often failed them.