Posted on 02/15/2015 11:17:51 AM PST by blueyon
President Obama and the Veterans Administration bureaucracy are already sabotaging the VA reform law passed in August. The ink is barely dry on the 8.6 million “Choice Cards” that supposedly allow vets to see a doctor outside the delay-plagued system.
Obama’s budget tries to snatch the $10 billion allocated for the Choice program and allow it to be spent however VA top administrators want. It’s a sickening betrayal.
Even worse, VA secretary Robert McDonald is telling federal lawmakers that this underhanded move will better serve “VA system priorities.” That’s the problem. He’s more interested in protecting “the system” than vets. It’s all about bureaucratic turf and union jobs. With a straight face, McDonald says it has ” nothing to do with us trying to gut the Choice Card or anything like that; it was about flexibility.” Flexibility for VA bureaucrats, not for ailing vets who need it. Removing the funding definitely will gut the program because the law says the Choice program expires whenever funding runs out.
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No need to worry, we have the legislature to look out for the veterans! Oh, wait . . . .
Tyranny continues under the EXEMPT 114th Congress
that micturates every day on the American People
and the US Constitution below their boots.
Obama = enemy combatant.
I got my ‘Veterans Choice Card’ in the mail.
“Veterans may be liable for the cost of care that is not pre-approved”
Good thing I have BlueCross/BlueShield /s
“Obama’s budget tries to snatch the $10 billion allocated for the Choice program and allow it to be spent however VA top administrators want. It’s a sickening betrayal.”
Government above all. They won’t relinquish a nickel to the private sector no matter who it affects.
Just one more piece of evidence that this man is anti-American, anti-military and anti-veteran.
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