With the recent exposure of substandard care for injured veterans at Walter Reed Army Hospital, the usual suspects on the right have decided to use yet another example of the administration "supporting the troops" in rhetoric only as a club to attack... government-run health care.

See here , here , and here for starters.

Anybody surprised to find out that they had it exactly backwards ? To be fair, it's not privatization per-se that's the problem:

The problem is that the administration’s rigid fixation on privatization for privatization’s sake discards even free-market principles like competitive bidding. In cases where private competitors can’t turn in a credible bid, managers simply change the rules until the private sector wins. Imposing quotas, real or implied, has that effect on people. Leave out any oversight mechanism to make sure that the job is done right, stifle whistleblowers and you have a near-perfect system for incentivized failure.

Also see this . Not that the usual shills and apologists care, of course.