Obama Wants Wounded War Vets To Pay Medical Costs
CNN:
Senators slam plan for wounded vets to use private insurance
WASHINGTON — 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.
But the proposal would be “dead on arrival” if it’s sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.
Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.
No official proposal to create such a program has been announced publicly, but veterans groups wrote a pre-emptive letter last week to President Obama voicing their opposition to the idea after hearing the plan was under consideration.
The groups also cited an increase in “third-party collections” estimated in the 2010 budget proposal — something they said could be achieved only if the Veterans Administration started billing for service-related injuries.
Asked about the proposal, Shinseki said it was under “consideration.”
“A final decision hasn’t been made yet,” he said.
Currently, veterans’ private insurance is charged only when they receive health care from the VA for medical issues that are not related to service injuries, like getting the flu.
Charging for service-related injuries would violate “a sacred trust,” Veterans of Foreign Wars spokesman Joe Davis said. Davis said the move would risk private health care for veterans and their families by potentially maxing out benefits paying for costly war injury treatments.
A second senator, North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, said he agreed that the idea should not go forward.
“I think you will give that up” as a revenue stream if it is included in this April’s budget, Burr said.
Murray said she’d already discussed her concerns with the secretary the previous week.
“I believe that veterans with service-connected injuries have already paid by putting their lives on the line,” Murray said in her remarks. “I don’t think we should nickel and dime them for their care.”
Eleven of the most prominent veterans organizations have been lobbying Congress to oppose the idea. In the letter sent last week to the president, the groups warned that the idea “is wholly unacceptable and a total abrogation of our government’s moral and legal responsibility to the men and women who have sacrificed so much.”
The groups included The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
At the time, a White House spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the option was being considered.
Flashback:
Pres. Bush increased the VA budget by 56% from 2001 to 2008
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Oh boy. this is going to light this place up in a hurry……………………
Well if Obama really wants a full out revolution we know what his next step will be.
What kind of mind would conceive this?
Why not make them buy airline tickets to go over to A’stan or Iraq? Buy their own ammo?
C.O.C.K.S.U.C.K.E.R. Burn in the hell that spawned your black heart.
They have absolute NO SHAME!
What ever happened to “thank you for your service”?. Now it’s bend over here it comes again!!! We’re with the federal government, we here to help. Yea right, the “great one” has a real disrepect for our nations troops. May almaity God intervine before it’s too late
Fucking cowards, they propose this garbage but, like all leftist cowards, are afraid to acknowledge and support their own bad ideas. How pathetic!!
What ever happened to “thank you for your service”?. Now it’s bend over here it comes again!!! We’re with the federal government, we here to help. Yea right, the “great one” has a real disrepect for our nations troops. May almighty God intervine before it’s too late
And another thing, so let me get this straight, everyone gets government healthcare except for our war wounded. Does that about sum it up? Fucking pathetic cowards!!!
Perhaps, they hope to create a wedge to splinter the opposition to universal health care. Show us some of our warriors suffering with out care, forcing us to make a false choice between socialized medicine or no care for them.
The lefties get to feed their inferiority complex driven animosity a bit as a sick bonus.
I don’t even know where to start in expressing my disgust…
WHERE is Obama’s birth certificate? Is that a losing request or can anything still be done about it? No one seems to care but proving he isn’t American would surely get him out of office quickly.
Dr. Orly Taitz is working on it, and the web-site is:
http://defendourfreedoms.us/
Let’s let that prick pay for all the costs of Air Force One! Or, better yet, take that plane away from his ass!
Inconceivable that he would even think about this. Shitting on our troops is not an option!!!!
Ny son along with his buddys paid thier hard earned cash for better equipment for Iraq even stuff that was supposed to be issued but somehow there was not enough of.
I feel like a volcano when I think about it.
That someone would even think to do this to our injured Warriors makes me say FUCK MY COUNTRY.
You all are a bunch of dumb asses and deserve not to have America anymore.
O-ne
B-ig
A-ss
M-istake
A-merica
That Hussein and his cronies would even CONSIDER something like that, is more than reprehensible. It’s an outright slap in the face of our wounded warriors. How will those in the military who voted for the COCKSUCKER-in-chief, take this? I’m just fucking LIVID!
TebB sez:
“Why not make them buy airline tickets to go over to A’stan or Iraq? Buy their own ammo?”
shhhhhh……
don’t give those traitorous bastards any more ideas man…
You have got to be fucking kidding me! Thats one hell of a trial balloon to be floating. I swear they are trying their damnedest to break this country from within.
More Change You Can Believe In (that communists have infiltrated our government).
So he wants Universal Healthcare, but yet wants the soldiers to pay for their wounds, fighting for our country? Lets start this revolution…
W Bush s/b paying their medical costs…He sent them there to be killed/injured!! Based on lies no less.
This is a man that did not serve his country!!
Troll.
How dare you demean their service and sacrifice with such an idiotic statement.
What lies? WMDs and development program were found and destroyed. Only the feared massive stockpiles were not. WMDs were only one of 23 listed cause for the invasion.
GWB served his nation as a fighter pilot and as POTUS. This attitude that no one serves that does not do so only on the ground, usually from “clerks and cooks” or lefty protesters, is such pure bullshit. You never hear that shit, except in jest, from those who saw real action they do not doubt the service of the pilot of that helo that got them out or that plane that vaporized the source of their troubles. Ever hear of the Cold War? Many, maybe most, of those intercepting the Soviets and setting ready on ramps in those days were AirGuard.
OT, I know and apologize; but that this idiocy remains and crops up even here is beyond my level of restraint! “Liberalism IS a mental disorder!!”
You’re at the wrong place friend. Leave quietly.
Could you please give me your home address so this 53 yr. old Granny can come for a visit. I just got my new hand gun and I need some target practice. If you are not man enought to face this old broad then I suggest you find a fucking fag site to post on where you can confront limp wristed liberals who want to hear you whisper your American hating shit up their ass!
This site is for proud, God fearing, military loving true Americans. Get the fuck out of here!!!
Nanny, no need for an address. You can find him at the 9/11 “truthers” convention.
saying Bushy went to Iraq to finish his daddys war 
If liberals had a brain they would be republican
Davenport says, “Fuck dem Irakis, dey just a bunch of uppity sand niggers and Bushy let dem in da big house”.
I’m all for running that half breed faggot outta the White House and sending him straight to the guillotine for a neck trimming. Fucking coward!
Davenport, please expalin your comment so that I may reply.
Davenport, when you finished that collection of retarded leftist crap and incoherent sentences, did you give yourself a pat on the back? Seriously, what could you be more proud of, you were born to wear the uniform of a liberal.
Seriously though, you picked this thread to do your shit-talking. Fuck you
Makes sense to me. Obama wants to create a civilian security force that’s as large as and funded as well as our military. The only way to justify that is if military enrollment is down.
“Currently, veterans’ private insurance is charged only when they receive health care from the VA for medical issues that are not related to service injuries, like getting the flu.”
Our military shouldn’t have to pay a dime for ANY medical services as far as I’m concerned. I didn’t think they did. If they can go and risk their lives for us, they should have free medical benefits for life.
your little pussy friends are calling you to come home Huffington post misses you.
Dont let the door hit you where the good lord split you
Our military deserve ass wipers if they want, the least they could get is high grade free medical care and free flights were they want
Oh Nazi Pelosi is taking care of that
This country can never do enough for those who serve…
To even suggest having our men and women pay for their own medical care is treason….This president is no Commander in Chief….
He will sell our people out in a heartbeat….
Goodbye Sweet America
Hang in there man.Don’t say goodbye, the war just begun.
“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
***Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.”***
Who in the fuck thought it SHOULD be transcribed in the first place?
Oh HELL no this had better not be serious=if this passes I will scream
This is getting fucking crazy. FUCK OBAMA!
:arrow:Davenport
you are a fucking pussy. you shoot and run and cannot back up what you say.
That’s right Barry. Send them out to protect us then shit on them when they come home. Worthless P.O.S.
I refuse to call Obama President, but POSTUS (Piece of shit of the United States) I could do.
I’m all out of words, to express how disgusting this is to me.
This little bastard
What shit for brains thought this was ok
I told people when obomanation was running for president that you probably won’t like “the CHANGE”. I stillsay keep the change, it wasn’t so bad.
I didn’t read past the first few paragraphs and stopped. I started to get pissed, then i thought “What should we expect from BHO”. I mean he told us right from the get go who he was and what he was about. Unfortunately the slight majority of voters decided that a historic first was more important than the security and prosperity of America. I wrote an article, I think it is still up at CW (Chandler’s Watch) called balancing the bailout on the backs of our brave and our poor.
Most of you may not know that the BHO Admin floated a ballon to get the public reaction to making retired military pay up to 50% of their medical costs, and active duty families could pay as much as 10% for dependant care. This info came straight from the CBO.
So for a guy that doesn’t respect your right to defend yourself and your family why would anyone think that he wants to support those of us who have or still do protect America?
Semper Fi!!
fucking scum http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_go_pr_wh/michelle_obama
“We’re at a time when we’re going to have to try a lot of things,” she said. But Mrs. Obama also said she has faith that things will get better and that “our current commander in chief will see us through.”
No matter how long it takes right gorilla bitch??
I read this on townhall and thought it is an attempt to create racial divide the military and for her to play nice while Obongo fucks them from behind.
If they care so much why are they cutting their funding?? And sending them to Astan to work with the taliban?? There are some serious sinister motivations here.
You have to post the truth when you put someone on the web. The new Secretary of the VA is the one who suggested this. Obama did not. AND the members of congress told him to forget it, because it was dead in the water if he ever sent anything of that sort to congress. So at least some people support our military.
I hope you are right-I would hate to see our wounded having to pay for their own care-it would be wrong
Did anyone notice that Davenport the queer commie didn’t respond?
The troll knew he was out-gunned here, so he hitched-up his skirt and ran back to Obamama crying.
I am repulsed that this would ever be considered by a Commander In Chief, unless he’s an imposter… Fuck BHO!
Usuper….Good luck on getting any support from the Troops when you will really need them, like in a time of civil unrest, like right now!!!
Bitch..
NMP
I hope to GOD he is not even thinking of doing this!! How many O supporters have vets in their families?? I hardly think anyone who does is stupid enough to have voted for him.
I DO care about those in my family who have served their country, A disabled uncle who did two tours in Vietnam, a step dad who was sick as hell after sitting in Agent Orange for a year, and a step brother in Iraq. These are our brothers and sisters risking every thing when they could be sitting on their butts watching t.v. or going to college in a nice cushy university. This should not have ever been brought up for discussion at all.
Patty Murray is trying to make up for voting for every big liberal spending bill known to mankind. She is my senator and when I asked her not to spend our grandchildren’s money, she send out a boilerplate diatribe explaining away her bad behavior. If Pelosi and Obama tell her to vote for something, Murray would say “How many times?” She is an idiot and the poster child for TERM LIMITS FOR ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS!!!
And, yes, I am shouting.
I am a retired military SF soldier, when I read about this I had to do some more research, and sure enough I am completely outraged!!! When he said that service was our choice and so we should have to pay for injuries…. WTF!!!!! Sorry but I was proud to put my life on the line and defend this country! When I came home from things I did, I was never welcomed home with banners or a thank you. But that was ok then cause it was my CHOICE to go and defend! It is cause of people like me and all other service members that make it even possible for this guy to even be able to have the oppurtunity that he does! And when he said that we knew the risks if we joined.. that we could go into combat… HELL I went in knowing what job I took WOULD send me to combat! And now you want us to pay for putting our lives on the line for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is just the perfect way to really make it so nobody that is either military, prior military, related to anyone in the military, or in fact any American that IS proud that there are people to sacrifice for freedom, REALLY REALLY pissed off!!!