Veterans Benefits ~
…and the backpedaling begins:
Contact: Craig Roberts of The American Legion, +1-202-263-2982 Office, +1-202-406-0887 Cell
WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.
Read the rest here.
I have held off on being really, really irate about this as I had been hearing different takes on this.
But apparently my fears are being realized.
The Veterans who have given the most of anyone in this country are being ripped off again.
But then there are articles like this one:
Proposal will expand health-care benefits for veterans
We give and we take away…
Leave it to the government to screw up even the best of intentions.
It does not surprise me. Obama can talk all supporty of the troops now, but he has been less than supportive in the past. “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
And it also appears that Obama has become enamored with his own PR, which is whatever you need it to be at any given moment. A functional chameleon. With teleprompters….
But then I’m only a Mom of a Soldier daughter and a Soldier son in law, clinging to my religion and guns. (damn straight I am!) What would I know of the Ruling Elite and how their little minds work? I just know that when you talk out of both sides of your mouth, somebody gets the boot and as usual with a Democrat, it would be the Vets.
After reading the articles above, go here and watch Obama talking out of his teleprompter mouth at the Dept of Veterans Affairs:
Pres. Obama Remarks at Dept. of Veterans Affairs
You can read the transcript here.
Also read the comment by ‘Robert” there also.
A Soldier’s Mind has a good post from January relating to this:
Proposed Tricare Cuts Could Cause Problems For Military Families and Retirees
“…A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office details just one proposal that would increase out of pocket expenses for medical care for Military Families and Veterans, while others would lose their VA benefits altogether. Other proposals would raise Tricare fees, co-payments and deductibles. Veterans whose medical condition isn’t service related could end up no longer being eligible for VA medical care at all. While nothing has been approved at this juncture, the Congressional Budget Office director at this time is President-elect Obama’s choice to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget, and who led the work on this proposal, Peter R. Orszag, so it very possibly will have a very real, very devastating affect on our Troops and our Veterans….”
Also, fyi:
They may just be numbers in a report to some, but there are many of us here who know what they did by raising their right hand and taking a solemn oath:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
We do not belittle them, nor do we forget.
(h/t to Hot Air and Once A Marine)
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