[TheDailyChange]

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki recently confirmed that the Obama administration is considering a proposal to bill veterans’ private health insurance for treatment of service-connected conditions. The VA currently bills veterans’ private insurance for treatment of non-service connected conditions and this proposal would extend that practice to service-connected conditions. This proposed policy is abominable and demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the price our men and women in uniform have already paid by the time they become veterans in need of healthcare. It is undeniably the VA’s moral and ethical obligation to pay for treatment of veterans’ service related injuries, disabilities, and disease. For the Obama administration to try to establish an additional revenue stream at the expense of our nations’ veterans rather than curtailing their massive spending is disgraceful.

[incredulous joe]

What a disgrace!

How low can this administration go!

[elpinta]

“It is undeniably the VA’s moral and ethical obligation...”

Therein is the problem, the gooberment doesn't have morals or ethics, therefore can't have such obligation.

[Tex Pete]

No surprise that ShinSUCKi is involved. He’s the guy who brought us the beret.

Maybe he should just go back to re-designing uniforms.

[Texas Fossil]

They may have picked the wrong group to go after.

Vets of all stripes feel connected to one another. This is an almost universally respected part of our society. This is another “chunk” in the punch-bowl.

Go back to Kenya where you belong, Barry, whatever your last name really is.

[Marmolade]

If these are combat injuries they just received from a recent deployment, what private insurance would these people have? Covered under spouse? I would assume if they were active duty, Tricare would be their insurance.

[Carley]

And the wives clap like trained seals when the mrs. o appears.

[PapaBear3625]

More to the point, lots of mid-size and large businesses self-insure for their medical insurance. A vet wanting to be hired with a pre-existing service-related condition will increase the costs to the hiring business, which will have an incentive to not hire the vet (regardless of laws against making that a hiring consideration)