[Polybius]

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.

"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'."

[MSF BU]

Odd Shinseki would countenance this. If this story is correct, he has really dropped in my estimation.