Well personally Gimpy, I think you are right that medicare way and some other system probably would fatten some wallets.If given the "Proper funding" VA hospitals could work. Therein lies the problem. Neither Democrats or Republicans are funding them properly. How do we hold their feet to the fire? It may be working for you further South in Florida, but for us up here in the Panhandle who voted President Bush in, it isn't working...and in fact...it's working worse since he went in! How do you "splain "that? Boeing has lots of money and funding and other big business and corporations. Smell the rat? Follow the money and you'll see the truth.