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.
> Those are the guys that should be front and center in line at the VA.
Who the hell said anything about them not being in front? If you’re not already retired and too elderly to work, I have no problem with you not receiving full health care, or with you not receiving any health care at all beyond the eligibility of ordinary citizens. I know the difference in levels of service. I sustained no disabling injuries myself, and my own level of service was low compared with that of my father, who was killed in combat.
What I do oppose is these off-the-cuff remarks about restricting coverage to the most deserving without taking into account retired low-income veterans, previously eligible, who are now too old to adapt to changes in eligibility. They made provisions for their old age based on their eligibility under the previous rules. To “improve” veterans health care, at this stage of their lives, by dumping them into the indigent population is not what I call improvement. It sucks.