Hannity guest Mark Fuhrman: VA and Medicare are "total government failures"

Mark Fuhrman?
Seriously, they wheel out this idiot to talk about health care?
The only thing I want to hear from this moron is how it feels to be a disgraced cop. Go back to Idaho.

If memory serves me correctly ,VA hospitals were allowed to fall into direpair during the Bush adminstration. And it was Bush who opposed the last GI bill. Where were Mark Fuhrman and Sean Hannity then?

Oh, and when I want an opinion about anything I'll take practically anybody else's over that of a disgraced racist cop.

While I feel that Mr. Fuhrman may be considered, on the basis of his own history, as an expert on 'total failure', in this case I'm gonna get a second opinion.

Too bad this loser, stripped of his badge, still can't get his facts straght. Walter Reedd is not a VA hospital.....its an Army Hospital and yes there is a difference.....It was thwe Republicans of the last 8 yeras who put those Combat Vets in those horrid hospital conditions at the Military Hospitals and the Republicans who cut the funding to the VA




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Why does Hammity search the nation for dirtbags and then call them "Great Americans"?

I think we all know what Mark Fuhrman thinks about prominent black men. I won't repeat the word he used here. You can look it up.

So I guess that does make him an "expert" in Fox's opinion.

Medicare and VA, dismally failing for 44 and 69 years respectively...

I don't see any bias in this video. The VA hospitals are not exactly top notch facilities and Medicare is unsustainable, especially if the old continue to outnumber the young in years to come.

Thank goodness FoxNews brought on a healthcare expert like Mark Furman to discuss such an important topic. Good grief.

Mark,
Not nearly as big a disaster as your employment at the LAPD. You are the reason OJ got away with murder.

And Mark Furman is a czsar now because what? I thought areas of criminology was his strong hold since he was employed in the field and displayed the behaviors of one. It would be better for him to address the hate mongers and racist which he has insight into. Don't brain up because he is and never will be anything more than the guy who aided in the exoneration of OJ.

The VA system does suck, from personal experience. The system sucks when your not even a Vet and still on active duty (Walter Reed). And it has sucked for more the "the last 8 years". Trauma care is the best in the world. Preventive care and regular check ups suck for service members and their families. It's operated for the most part by a great bunch of hard working people who try to there best with the undercut budgets and horible management provided to them. The people in charge care more about how much treatments cost than who they are treating.

It amazes me how these morons cant distinguish hospitals and doctors, from health insurance. Then again, i would like to see one of their typical conservative mental breakdowns when somebody finally explains it to them. And i wouldnt be able to see that if they at least had the intelligence of say, some kind of river fish.

Why is a cop who's total reputation to him being on TV was making racist tapes during the OJ case in 1994? I am baffled on the guests FOX NEWS has on their shows. ????

"Scrape - scrape - scrape the bottom of that barrel boys, there must be some sludge left down there - yep there's still Mark Fuhrman we can get. He is always good for a few talking points."

"Why don't we get him to say VA and Medicare are complete failures?" "Fine by me but shouldn't we explain to him what VA and Medicare are before he goes on Hannity?" "Good idea and why don't we have him come on in black face as a joke - Hannity will love it!"

The scandalous VA hospital conditions are a Bush/Cheney legacy. Soldiers good enough to be wounded for their country made the mistake of coming home alive with medical problems. Too much money, said Bush/Cheney. Can't afford it. A lie they learned from their buddies in the health insurance industry.

Having Mark Fuhrman on was a brilliant stroke on FOX's part, though. I mean, who better to tell a big whopping pack of lies than a convicted perjurer? When it comes to lying, you're much better off with an expert in the field!

You know we've really got them on the run with this issue, they know how a majority of Americans feel about this, and that's what's behind these Foxes desperate and loud and constant rhetoric on this issue... it's a good measure of how weak their position is, by how hard they're working to defend it... and I'm glad to see so few people taking the 'torture' bait being held out right now (notice how not only Dick Cheney but his daughter suddenly thrust themselves back into the spotlight), that's intentional and well-timed, and is meant purely to distract you in your efforts regarding Public Health Insurance.

We're at a tipping point right now, and it's no time to ease up or be distracted.

and what is it that this guy is able to contribute?

What...........O.J. wasn't available ?

Of course the teabaggers consider them a failure because these programs have helped Americans rather than corporations.

Isn't Fuhrman famous solely for having had a recording of him using the n-word profusely played back to him in court after he claimed he never used it?

Strange choice of person to have on critiquing government health care programs that work.

Please, someone tell me if I'm incorrect...

But, if I'm not mistaken, isn't Walter Reed Hospital administered by the Department of Defense, not the Department of Veteran's Affairs.

Yup... I was correct. Walter Reed Army Medical Center is part of the Department of Defense, not the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

Funny, how loathe "conservatives" such as this are to acknowledge a failure in the Defense Department.

It's already been said, but holy hell, why on Earth is Mark flippin' Fuhrman anyone to talk to about anything?

Do you want a VA hospital that is better than most other hospitals? I suggest you look at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System.

In any case, the hospital with all the mold and rats was not a VA facility. It was Waslter Reed, which is an Army Medical facility. These guys are not only wrong, they don't even know what they are talking about.

I interned this summer at one of Jim Webb's satellite offices. I got a bunch of calls about health care. Many of them were saying, "I don't want this socialized medicine to go through, and I don't want to lose my Medicare". Well, there isn't much to say about that that hasn't already been said.

But this one lady called me and and said that the Veterans Health care she got sucked, and that she used it for "29 years". Really, it sucks soooooooo bad, yet you used it for 29 years? If it was so bad, why not go that private health insurance that you like so much during that time, eh?

The VA and Medicare would actually be better off if managed by the military hospitals for active duty and dependents. There is a wait time issue every once in a while (usually because a Doc is deployed and certain specialties may be short because of it), but all care and procedures are covered. Having had both military and civilian care plans, I would go with military every time.