Who will hire a wounded or partially disabled veteran if Obama's treatment

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scheme is passed into law? Veterans groups irate at Obama's private insurance proposal

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Veterans groups are angry after President Obama told them Monday that he is still considering a proposal to have treatment for service-connected injuries charged to veterans' private insurance plans.

Leaders of the country's most prominent veterans groups met Monday at the White House with Obama, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Steven Kosiak, the director in charge of defense spending for the Office of Management and Budget.

Some of the veterans groups were caught off guard when the president said the administration is still thinking about the idea as a way of generating $540 million for the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2010. The groups and some members of Congress have been very vocal in opposing the idea.

The message, according to some of the people in the room, was that if the groups do not like this idea, they need to come back with another way of saving or raising revenue for the VA.

"I got the distinct impression that the only hope of this plan not being enacted is for an alternative plan to be developed that would generate the desired $540 million in revenue," Cmdr. David Rehbein of the American Legion said in a written statement.
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I'm a retired Chief Petty Officer, 22 years in the US Navy.
 
It's a very good point.

Some veterans will just because it is the right thing to do. But n0bama is trying to put the debt owed to the serviceman onto individuals instead of the country that incurred the debt.

But don't worry. We're going to give illegals free health care!
 
It is really awful when you consider what a drop in the bucket 540 million is compared to the amounts given to ACORN to organize the community.
 
No need to hire them. We'll just shoot them and save a bundle!

Take this sarcastically Chief. VA does little or next to nothing for me and as I get older the less they do!
They diagnosed me with PTSD!
Aviation Boatswains Mate Third Class Miles at your services! 1973-1977 1984 (Medical Honorable Discharge)
Stationed:
NAS Memphis
NAS Gitmo Bay
NAS Cecil Fields, Fla
Aboard:
USS Lexington
USS Forestall

Honorably Discharged!

and Chief, Thanks for your years of service!
 
Most of the Democrats are not much better than Stalinists. They hate the military and the service men and women. Of course, they can't actually say that, because the nation would be appalled and they would not be re-elected. But, you can tell by the way they treat the military. Al Gore tried to keep their votes from counting in FL and every Democrat President puts them in harms way, but doesn't give them back up.
 
Most of the Democrats are not much better than Stalinists. They hate the military and the service men and women. Of course, they can't actually say that, because the nation would be appalled and they would not be re-elected. But, you can tell by the way they treat the military. Al Gore tried to keep their votes from counting in FL and every Democrat President puts them in harms way, but doesn't give them back up.
 
when i was getting operations and treatment back in 1975 they always asked if i had private insurance and if i did they would be having them pay for the cost of whatever your insurance would pay for, then Vets Hospital would cover the rest............!

plus, if you did not have any insurance, Vets Hospital would pay for all of the cost~!

i heard the benefits are different from when i was in~!


and the guy above me is a Loco, manure spreader......

i am Democrat and Enlisted during Viet Nam, their were lots of Democrats in the Sevice~!

actually no one really talks about Politics that much, unless we was sayin, " Fck Nixon"~!!!
 
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