Obama wants Vets to pay for their military service injuries

This makes me want to throw up… How could ANY military vet have voted for this piece of crap (or fail to vote against him)?

The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private

insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries.

The plan would be an about-face on what veterans believe is a

long-standing pledge to pay for health care costs that result from

their military service. But in a White House meeting Monday, more about

veterans groups apparently failed to persuade President Obama to take

the plan off the table. “Veterans of all generations agree that

this proposal is bad for the country and bad for veterans, store ” said Paul

Rieckhoff, page executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of

America. “If the president and the OMB [Office of Management and

Budget] want to cut costs, they can start at AIG, not the VA.” Under

current policy, veterans are responsible for health care costs that are

unrelated to their military service. Exceptions in some cases can be

made for veterans who do not have private insurance or are 100 percent

disabled.

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