Obama Wants To Force Veterans To Pay For Their Own Health Care
Or, more accurately, veterans with private health insurance. But even so, isn’t the health care our troops current receive a benefit they earned by serving their country?
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. . . .
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.
If the Obama administration pulls this shenanigan, shame on them. Especially in light of the billions taxpayers are being forced to dole out to insolvent banks and nearly-bankrupted automakers.
Even that Obama would consider this, in light of all the pork and subsidy he’s signed into law for people not responsible enough to pay their own bills and run their own companies in a solvent fashion, is a black mark against his character.
