Ash Wyllie wrote:

Or how about giving every veteran a free first dollar insurance policy good
for any hospital in the US?

Veteran's hospitals exist for several purposes, one of which is to maintain
a pool of medical staff readily available in case of war. Your proposal would
increase the costs of providing health care to veterans and make it impossible
for the military to rapidly expand its rear lines medical facilities.

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can
be learned no other way.