> As a 4 year peace time vet, I wouldn’t even think of walking into a VA hospital with an ailment....Sorry, but that’s just me.
So, yes, you are in favor of dumping veterans who retired thinking they had enough to subsist and are now too old to find jobs “...into the rest of the indigent population, in many instances causing them to lose their homes or not be able to pay rent, in effect, putting them on the street”
In my case I served in wartime, but peacetime doesn’t always stay peacetime. Persons who serve in the military give up many of their freedoms to do what they wish and go where they please. They too assume the risk of being put in harm’s way at any time.
I agree that this doesn’t necessarily entitle them to special compensation for the rest of their lives, or even special provisions when they are elderly. The most deserving are the veterans who make greater sacrifices.
I have no problem with saying — well ahead of time — that your level of service doesn’t qualify you for full health care in your retirement. Then it would be up to persons with lesser qualifications to make the proper provisions for their retirement just like everybody else. If not, they end up with the rest of the indigent.
To “improve” veterans health care, after they are retired, though, and make them ineligible when it’s too late for them to fend for themselves, really sucks! Trump didn’t campaign on that.
Dude, I hate to say it, and I do thank you too for your service BUT like I said me sailing around for 4 yrs with ballistic missiles, just in case, Is not the same as all my ancestors did in all our prior wars, nor those current Marines that had to retake Ramadi and Fallujah.
Those are the guys that should be front and center in line at the VA.