Mercedes Schlapp Quotes
Our veterans only deserve the highest standard of health care quality.
Schlapp, Mercedes. "The VA Scandal Exposes the Flaws of Government Healthcare." U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report, 23 May 2014.
Such an occurrence was all too common before LBJ’s Presidency.
The principle espoused in this quotation is the major reason that Health Care costs are so difficult to control. The individual patient and consumer is not driven by market conditions when his/her life is at stake.
The George W. Bush Administration had gone to war against Iraq for reasons that turned out not to be true, and then after a military victory with few casualties, botched the occupation of the country and a vicious insurgency developed bogging down the nation in its longest war in history. The major burden fell on the armed forces and their families. The hearings were in part examining the Bush Administration policies.
Contrast this with the French Revolution treatment of the ex-aristocratic criminals. There were kept in miserable conditions for a few days, tried and executed. The Dutch wanted justice but the leadership kept the process focused on that and not vengeance. Although the aristocrats were treated very well physically, it was very hard on them. They were not allowed to have any visitors—friends or relatives—for fear that they would be involved with plots to return the monarchy.
Mercedes Schlapp is an American communications specialist and political commentator for both English and Spanish media. She has served in two presidential administrations as director of specialty media under George W. Bush and as White House Director of Strategic Communications in the Trump administration from September 2017 to July 2019. She went on to work on the Trump 2020 re-election campaign as senior advisor for strategic communications.
