Dear BJ 1/2,
Your response tells me that you are/were not a veteran, nor attached to a military family, and that you were born after the Fall of The Berlin Wall.
You said:
“But I will hazard a guess that back in Lincoln’s day the program wasn’t set up that way.”
HAZARD A GUESS?!?!?!?
This is 2016!! The Internet and The Information Age has been going since before the 1990’s!!
By your very words, i.e., ‘hazard to guess’, tells me that you don’t really care to find out what Lincoln had set up for the veterans, or what the veterans are faced with, today, because you just lump all that into, I Quote YOU, ‘one big government program’.
I refuse any sort of half-handed ‘thank you with the middle finger’ you might provide.
What’s it matter how old I am or if I served? The point I was making is that the govt is interfering with the healthcare market by paying lower rates for the healthcare they provide from medicare/medicaid and VA. You are taking offense to something I said. No offense but the thread wasn’t about veterans issues. I don’t care for you making it that in your replies. You care about, find a veteran health news article and post your own thread on it.