Obama Drops Vet Insurance Plan: "...Obama explained that insurance companies collect premiums for veterans' coverage but get a break when veterans use VA for service-related conditions. He then asked VSO leaders for their views, and got an earful.
'Everybody was opposed to the idea for a lot of reasons,' said Gorman. 'The fundamental one was that the foreign policy of the United States sent us war. These are the disabilities we've incurred. It's the federal government's moral and legal obligation to take care of them, not Blue Cross and Blue Shield.'
Obama indicated he wouldn't go forward without VSO support. But when he and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki left to visit with employees at VA headquarters, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, asked the VSOs to go back and consider ways to reduce VA costs enough to fill a $540 million hole that would be left in the budget if the president pulled his proposal.
The VSO met two days later with Emanuel and told him that they all agreed it was not their job to find savings for the VA..."
2 comments:
Jeez!
It's not quite as bad as it seems at firs-- the point that many of the guys are making is that the US promised us lifetime, good quality medical care if we gave up years of our lives and in some case body parts and other injuries (in my case a spine injury and hearing problems) and they feel the government should not and try and pawn of off insurance companies, whose sole reason for existence is to deny medical care for those paying for it.
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