The military has promised health care to veterans as part of the deal for signing on to risk their lives.
For those already in the system, I would support no change.
For those who haven’t yet signed on with the military, it is possible to change the promises made to them. The question is whether they will accept that deal.
Often, also, there are service-connected health issues that don’t become issues until later in life.
Well who is the real promiser in this thing anyhow.
That is a Congress level responsibility, which makes sense under an old fashioned view of the constitution. They are the people who are supposed to declare wars. They could put their foot down, in principle, on the President for attempting to go beyond that.
How low has America stooped where it spends hundreds of billions on care and social services for illegal aliens and billions on foreign aid. Yet we're going to tell Veterans who've taken years out of their lives to risk it all, but they now want new *qualifiers* for Veterans heath care care?
Instead of tearing it down, we should be doing just the opposite, and build Veterans health care for ALL of our Veterans who've served.
Those "contracts" that I, and millions of other veterans signed are not, nor were they ever iron-clad. There are clauses throughout everything you sign, especially when it comes to enslistments, retirement pay, and any other benefits that contain the words in some form, "everything in here may change to meet the needs of the government/service branch."
The perception that the military "promised" its personnel something is a bit of a myth. Those promises can be kept, but only as far as there's money to pay for it. And whether or not healthcare for veterans comes from one Cabinet department or another should not matter, as long as it's provided.
Please do not take away from my comments that I am not grateful for those vets who made much larger physical, mential and emotional sacrifices than I did. I am, and I believe those vets should be cared for. But we should be looking for the best and most cost-effective ways to do that, and if consolidating government departments is effective, we should consider doing it.
For the record, it’s my position anyone attempting to implement or even suggest new qualifiers to restrict or eliminate any qualified American Veterans benefits, should be opposed with vengeance.