Reprehensible, disgraceful and if I had a thesaurus I would also say ignoble.

President Obama is thinking about requiring our wounded veterans to use private insurance to get treatment for injuries sustained in battle. This was brought up at a press briefing and confirmed by VA Secretary Shinseki under the great big dome.


The political wind-socks that work there (Often a loose term for what they do there) said such a suggestion would be dead on arrival, but other bills have been declared dead that found themselves resurrected, so we want to make sure this isn’t one of them.

How can they even consider such a thing? One of our kids goes off to Iraq or Afghanistan and sacrifices everything and yet somehow survives, only to later find out they need to go through their local HMO for treatment?


This administration is clueless about any of the realities of the world. Good God, when is this country going to wake up and collectively agree they made a mistake?

America, you made a mistake.
References below:
First, an excerpt from:
THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
__________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release March 10, 2009
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
Q The VA Secretary was on the Hill today and he confirmed -- Secretary Shinseki -- that the administration is considering a plan to have veterans have the treatment for their service-related injuries paid for with private insurance, rather than the government. And there are a lot of veterans groups who have written to the President saying they believe this is outrageous and the government should be picking up the tab for those who served. What can you say about why the President is considering this --

MR. GIBBS: I've not seen what the VA Secretary had to say on this today, so let me go back and get a chance to read up on it.

Complete text at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-WH-Press-Secretary-Gibbs-3-10-09/

Next we have…

By Adam Levine
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- 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.
Complete text at:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/veterans.health.insurance/index.html