Lessons learned from the obamacare affair.
Posted on 09/06/2024 1:00:59 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) defended her vote against bipartisan legislation that expanded health benefits for veterans, saying Tuesday she didn’t want to spend “$600 billion forever.”
Boebert faced off in a general election debate against her Democratic opponent, Trisha Calvarese. The Democrat pressed Boebert to explain why she didn’t support the landmark “Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act,” which expanded benefits for millions of veterans who were exposed to toxins during service and are suffering illnesses as a result.
“If you’re going to take care of folks, what about our veterans, Lauren? You know, because you’re talking about lots of cuts and how to pay for things. I think if you’re going to be America first, you can’t put veterans last,” Calvarese said to Boebert during the lunchtime debate in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.
“I do just want to point to your vote that — you voted against care for veterans exposed to cancer-causing toxins and burn pits during war,” Calvarese added.
Boebert responded, saying, “When it comes to our veterans. I have absolutely put them first. In my first year, we were in the minority, and unfortunately not all the legislation was great.”
The Republican said she voted against some massive omnibus bills that might have supported veterans, because “I’m not voting for something that we have 22 hours to read that’s over 2,000 pages long.”
The House and Senate each passed the PACT Act in July 2022, and Biden signed it into law a short time later. All Democrats and a majority of Republicans in both chambers voted for the legislation. Boebert was one of 88 House Republicans who voted against it.
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Please support her!
They always want to cut everything except for welfare.
Healthcare welfare dwarfs all other forms of it.
These ‘burn pit’ stories are a bunch of bull imo.
I was in Iraq 04-07 on several different bases. The only time I encountered burn pits it was with a wind and no one stood downwind. Now, there was something called ‘Baghdad Lung’ and that was nasty. Trash, sewage, whatever else with raw oil mixed into it then burned. That’s what the Iraqis did. And also contaminated tap water from mixing a sewage line into a public water line but I think that was intentional sabotage.
Around me I saw more ppl taken out by ‘Baghdad Lung’ then anything else. The smoke had small oil particles with all that junk mixed in it. If you breathed it in you stood a good chance of getting a nasty lung infection. I got that in 2006. It was debilitating. My mother sent me a few bottles of Herbal Lung Cleanse or something like that. By the end of the second bottle I spit up yellow phlegm for about a week and then it was all cleared up.
As a vet who was exposed to open burn pits, I’m with her on this. The VA needs to get better with the given resources. More funding to the bloated bureaucracy is not the solution.
give congress the vets healthcare and then we will see a change
“ My mother sent me a few bottles of Herbal Lung Cleanse or something like that. By the end of the second bottle I spit up yellow phlegm for about a week and then it was all cleared up.”
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Moms know best.👍🏻
And they don’t want to cut anything related to the stream of illegals pouring over. As if this Dem cares about veterans and Americans when they are doing everything they can to hurt everyday average Americans and destroy our country.
As a veteran, I’ve seen firsthand the bloat within the VA system.
There are so many federal employees that do little more than collect a paycheck.
My opinion - remove the dead weight of federal government employees and spend more money on doctors and nurses.
Approximately 70% of doctors and nurses received SOME of their training at a VA facility. Then they go out to the real world where they get paid much better.
Who else is tired lot being bled white for a standing army that is everywhere in the world except our southern border? The reptiles that rule us defend everyone else but us with it.
You go on to describe in great detail something debilitating called Baghdad Lung which you got from being down wind from a "burn pit" once.
Something about that doesn't add up 🤔
Plenty of waste and graft in the VA Industrial Complex.
Any legislation over 100 pages should be illegal.
So true. I’m sick of veterans and military being looked at first for cuts. Go after food stamps, SSDI, welfare and other benefits. Then we can talk veterans.
Veterans have a right to expect that service-connected injury and likely to be service-connected injuries should be cared for and compensated for by the employer, the US government.
Veterans should be treated in a manner comparable to civilian workmans’ comp.
Maybe true. But why let other programs get a free ride. I’m sorry but a family of four does not need 945 dollars in food stamps a month.
The VA sucks, I’m alive right now because I moved to an area where I can see civilian doctors because of the distance to a VA hospital, and the civilian hospitals are sooooo much better.
“burn pits were commonly used in Iraq, Afghanistan and other overseas locations to dispose of waste collected on military bases. That included items that produced dangerous toxic smoke when burned, such as plastics, rubber, chemical mixtures and medical waste.”
“The president’s personal connection to the problem has also played a part. Biden’s son Beau served in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard and died in 2015 from a rare brain cancer. Biden has said he doesn’t know if burn pits caused his son’s cancer, but he suspects there was a link.”
Our neighbor is a veteran — 83 years old. He is treated like gold at every VA facility in the area here in east TN. Seriously, I was prepared to not be impressed, but I sure am.
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