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Report: 1.7 Million Vets Lack Health Care
ABC News ^
| October 19, 2004
Posted on 10/19/2004 1:49:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
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Emphasis: according to a report Tuesday from a doctors' group that favors federally financed health care.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:49:28 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Health care needs to be addressed in the next Bush term in office. The middle class is taking a hit on this issue.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:51:25 PM PDT
by
Merry
To: Kaslin
The report traced some of the increase to the Bush administration's decision last year to suspend health care services for higher-income veterans to reduce waiting times for doctor's appointments.Huh?
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:51:57 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Kaslin
I swear that everyone in this country is either out of work or lacking health care or both.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:52:05 PM PDT
by
hankbrown
To: Kaslin
What a coincidence that this is reported by ABC just in time for Kerry's latest attack on Bush...
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:53:01 PM PDT
by
pabianice
To: Kaslin
Another 3.9 million people without health insurance live in veterans' households and also are ineligible for veterans' health care, the report said.They do seem to have a mission in mind.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:53:34 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Kaslin
This is such a load of crap. Just about anyone can get VA medical care.
To: Kaslin
Cynthia Church, spokeswoman for the Veterans Affairs DepartmentHmmm--any connection to Kerry allies with VVAW/VA connections, like Max Cleland for instance?
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:55:57 PM PDT
by
Fedora
To: Kaslin
My husband works at a VA facility, and this so-called "doctors' report" is shamefully distorted and completely untrue.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:56:09 PM PDT
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: pabianice
I agree, very coincidencial
Not
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:56:14 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Stick a fork in Kerry, he is done)
To: Kaslin
......according to a report Tuesday from a doctors' group that favors federally financed health care. Thinly veiled attack by ABC News against the President.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:58:05 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
(Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 Jet Noise...The Sound of Freedom!)
To: Merry
I actually think you are right. Bush should address this in his second term.
To: hankbrown
I swear that everyone in this country is either out of work or lacking health care or both. Even though my family is provided health care by my employer via my benefits and contributions to the plan, they are considered uncovered by statistics because they are not the primary subscriber. The numbers of people without health care in the US is so skewed I don't even listen to it anymore.
Plus, anyone can walk into any public hospital and get top treatment by LAW. Try that in any of your "progressive" national health care countries.
To: Kaslin
Can we reemphasize that Al Gore, "inventor of the internet", slashed the military budget beyond all reason and drove many military families into poverty?
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:58:14 PM PDT
by
saveliberty
(Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
To: MisterRepublican
Exactly, also they can get Trycare
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:58:23 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Stick a fork in Kerry, he is done)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:58:38 PM PDT
by
bluecollarman
(Kerry, I want my Nuclear Bunker Buster delivered on time!)
To: MisterRepublican
No kidding-even veterans who can afford other health care can get their snouts into the trough (if they are clever) for a year or two until they are caught-their doing this, of course precludes someone with a proven service related disability who really needs and deserves care from getting it.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:59:43 PM PDT
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: Merry
As a military retiree that is absolutely true!
Surprising as it may be, the vast majority of Veterans live where there are no military or VA health facilities! Perhaps the law should be re-written so that it requires that all veterans live within easy driving distance of either military or VA medical facilities - then this issue will go away.
I see this junk all the time. People in the town where I live cry the blues that they have no VA facility HERE.
I don't think we can spend enough money to ensure that every veteran is within 40 miles of a VA facility.
What a bunch of hooy!
To: Kaslin
My husband retired from the Army, and we have had Tricare ever since it came into being-Tricare is only for active and retired military and their dependents. It is great insurance, though-we were in a bad auto accident last year and the co-pay for our emergency room services was about half what I expected it to be.
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posted on
10/19/2004 2:03:28 PM PDT
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: Kaslin
just damn
JFKerry yesterday said this report would would come out today. And it appears he had a first look at it:
"We're sending men and women off to war, and yet the people who fought previous wars can't get the basic things they need to go on with their lives afterward said Dr. David Himmelstein, a Harvard Medical School professor and an author of the study
Which is damn near word for word what Kerry said yesterday
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posted on
10/19/2004 2:03:37 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(It's called GOLF because all the other 4 letter words were taken)
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