Privatization Disaster from FEMA to Walter Reed

Paul Krugman nails it in his op ed this week:
"Yet even now it’s not clear whether the public will be told the full story, which is that the horrors of Walter Reed’s outpatient unit are no aberration. For all its cries of “support the troops,” the Bush administration has treated veterans’ medical care the same way it treats everything else: nickel-and-diming the needy, protecting the incompetent and privatizing everything it can."

"[The] Walter Reed scandal is another Hurricane Katrina: the moment when the administration’s misgovernment became obvious to everyone."

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