Posted on 03/12/2009 10:18:30 AM PDT by euram
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.
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Yes, I was in violent agreement with you. :)
PING!
Screw that...He gives 9bil to Hamas....This is the change he promised.
right!
I thought liberals wanted free healthcare?
They do...... but they get to pick and choose who gets it.
They want to tax our employer health care benefits now....and they want veterans to get insurance.
As far as veterans go....I'd give up some of my benefits to pay for theirs. Besides that....there is so much waste in Vet Hospitals it's not even funny. Why have special Vet Hospitals anyway?
I used to live in SoCal....we had a huge Vet Hospital...right near another huge hospital. I swear you could see the curvature of the earth while looking down a hallway of the Vet Hospital...and they had multiple floors that were EMPTY!
Just crazy..........
But the proposal would be “dead on arrival” if it’s sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.
As much as Patty Murray was when she arrived in Washington D.C.....
But the proposal would be “dead on arrival” if it’s sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.
As much as Patty Murray was when she arrived in Washington D.C.....
OBozo hasn’t a hope in hell in the next election!
During the GW years, the demons kept complaining that Bush wasn’t doing enough for the vets. I guess it depends on what your definition of enough is.
It's called a "trial balloon". They like this idea, and other similar ones. They float this idea, saying it has "no chance"... but if the outcry isn't bad enough to cost many Dem seats, they'll tinker with it, and push it through. They know that the silent majority only has the stomach for so much complaining per year... so if they can find a soft spot, or a time when they're sick of being dismayed and annoyed, they'll push a few more across.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr this guy gets more evil each day!!!!
"So, Mr. Smith, you have residual problems from the North Vietnamese shrapnel still in your body. That is what we in the insurance business call a 'pre-existing condition'."
Hey, Queen Nancy’s VIP aircraft costs money, and ACORN is woefully underfunded-and our Emperor can’t be expected to go a week without a well-deserved rest somewhere just a helicopter and airplane ride away......And we need $100 million to fund poetry slams for crack babies.....I can’t believe our wounded vets could be selfish enough to object....
/sarc
The VA already does this. I was charged by the VA for meds they gave me, although I was combat vet and 30% disabled (PTSD Viet Nam). If anyone fantasizes about government run health care, just go to the VA. A truly insulting experience.
Count me in too - what an outrage!
I think you have just nailed it. This is part of an attempt to drive everyone into the arms of government healthcare. No private insurer is going to dream of insuring service related injuries, and Bambi knows it.
WHAT THE ____!?! I'd expect practically anything from a man who, like another HUSSEIN, demands that the use of his name always be preceded by the title "President", but THIS? NOW??
IMPEACH THIS B@STARD!
Shinseki the beret guy, bill clinton’s second favorite general.
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