What's up with this?

In 2010, there were 1 million veterans receiving disability pensions. 25% of these were Vietnam veterans with the disability of adult-onset diabetes. More Vietnam veterans are being compensated for diabetes than any other disease. Explain to me how the VHA is not socialized medicine? And please don't start off with some fight for your country bull. What if I'm a healthy young man that wanted to join the armed forces and was disqualified because of my eyesight or some other problem that didn't harm my civilian life enough to be on disability, but wasn't good enough for the armed forces? I'm no less an American than someone in the armed forces, am I? The argument about socialized medicine is ridiculous people. Not to mention that there are so many socialized programs in the United States, it isn't even funny. I'm getting so tired of someone parroting someone else without first checking the facts and looking at all sides of the argument before spouting off. If it wasn't for President Obama, people, this country would be so much worse off today then it would have been with a Republican President. We're still in trouble, but we were headed for a Great Depression worse than the last one and President Obama pulled us out. I saw a cute bumper sticker today. It said, "Voting for President is just like driving a car. If you want to go in reverse, select R. If you want to go forward, select D." That pretty much sums it up.