Yep. Rubio, Bush and Paul all have suggested some kind of voucher system or other form of dumping the government’s responsibility for veterans’ healthcare into the private sector. Who’s pushing this? Why, the Koch Brothers in yet another of their myriad phony grassroots organizations, this one called Concerned Veterans for America. For the record, neither Charles nor David Koch ever served in the military. I conclude that they have little concern for veterans as such and more concern about destroying a big-government health care system, one which works very well for the vast majority of its patients.

You know what is really bizarre about this idea? Buried on page 49 of the Concerned Veterans for America “Fixing Veterans Health Care” report is a suggestion that the Veterans Health Administration be turned into a private corporation run in a similar fashion to AMTRAK. AMTRAK! The railroad that the Republican party has tried to defund forever! So the VHA would have to, every year, fight for funding in the annual Congressional budgeting exercise just as the train does. And the true believers in the Republican Congress would attempt to defund the VA every year just as they do AMTRAK.

If you know any vets, show them the video above.