joether
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/veterans-groups-blast-obama-plan-private-insurance-pay-service-related-health/
The V.A. now requires you to report of you have insurance. The next step is denial of care if you don't have health insurance.
The current pattern seems to keep a person cycling on station and never actually treat anything. A primary care is slotted about 15 minutes per patient and has to spend twelve of those minutes going through mandatory statistical information gathering on each visit. The primary care physicians are in effect prevented from referring to anywhere they can actually get treatment because you have to show tests requiring the treatment within the last 90 days to see a specialist but appointments are only made at least six months out.
The V.A. is Hospital California and works on Catch 666 principles. (Yes, that is an allusion)
If you have insurance through a private company (i.e. through the Affordable Care Act)....WHY...would you go to the VA Hospital? That was the point of the VA Hospital in the first place; to give good quality care to people that have served in the US Armed Forces, but did not have health insurance.
From the article you cite....
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"Roberts said that 11 veterans service organizations were told to come up with another plan if they didn't like this one. The groups met on Monday with Obama, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Office of Management and Budget defense spending chief Steven Kosiak.
"What we've been tasked with now is to raise this money through alternative means and we're supposed to have a conference call in two or three days ... with Rahm Emanuel. So the implication was ... you guys come up with a better idea or this is what's going to happen," Roberts said."
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So these groups did not like the President's plan. So he fired back "Ok, present a better plan". And they dislike that option as well. I mean, holy shit, they get what they demand from the President and STILL are not happy! They want to keep blasting the President when its not even his responsibility to fix; it's Congress's duty. If anything, those veterans groups should be supporting the President in forcing the useless Republican/Tea Party to craft and send through a bill that overhauls the whole system. And when the Republican/Tea Party fails to deliver, throws 'em all out of office!
Further from the article....
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"But Roberts said the president's plan would increase premiums, make insurance unaffordable for veterans and impose a massive hardship on military families. It could also prevent small businesses from hiring veterans who have large health care needs, he said."
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That would be of a plan that HAS NOT BEEN CREATED YET (i.e. a bill through Congress). Its really sad that the American Legion has this person representing them on the national level. How does one arrive at all those accusations, without a shred of evidence to support it? They speak only to FOX News.....
Still further in the article...
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"He added that the argument about the government's moral obligation to treat wounded soldiers, sailors and Marines fell on deaf ears during the meeting."
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Was this a consideration of the founding fathers? You know, what all the crazy conservatives in the nation and on this forum use when arguing for more spending on different projects? Oh....that's right....IT's NOT! Yes, its that liberal desire that all Americans are treated fairly and given good care.....
< Message edited by joether -- 5/22/2014 11:14:24 AM >
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