March 18, 2009 10:29 AM
Obama's diss of vets - part 2
Read Obama plans to charge wounded soldiers for medical care
Will Obama Go AWOL on VA Health Benefits? By DAVID K. REHBEIN'If you were injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and you have not paid your co-pay, please press 1. If you were injured during military training and you have not yet reached your deductible, please press 2. If your family has reached its maximum insurance benefit, please call back after you have purchased additional coverage. Thank you for your service."
Before the leaders of other veteran's groups and I met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, I believed a phone call like the one described above unimaginable. Now it seems all too possible.
President Obama made clear during our discussion that he intends to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans with service-connected disabilities. He is trying to unfairly generate $540 million on the backs of veterans.
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Comments
Disgraceful! Obama's hatred of all things American is simply mind boggling.
Posted by: Libby | March 18, 2009 11:16 AM
This is not something new. My brother who is retired military has Tricare as all retired military are entitled to get. It is secondary to any civilian medical insurance he may get even to treat war related conditions. He can go at anytime to VA center for treatment at no cost, but the conditions of those have sunk to horrible lows as recent exposes during the Iraq war have shown. This just the way it works with military insurance.
Don't know how the AL insurance works, if they have Tricare or if what they currently has is not integrated or coordinated with other coverage. But what Obama said is the way it works for all of our armed forces.
The big disgrace is that our service men were promised free health insurance for life after retirement. The military reneged on this promise. After a bitter law suit, there was a settlement and the retirees do have to pay. Just as many other retirees have had to deal with broken promises about pensions and health insurance.
My brother has gotten a pretty penny from Tricare by refusing to get civilian insurance that is offered by his spouse's company forcing Tricare to pay up. And what a pain that has been as I discovered dealing with them when he got a mass on his pancreas a few years ago. But pay they did, after greedily sniffing for any signs of other health insurance which there was not.
Posted by: Cath Young | March 18, 2009 2:15 PM
As the daughter, granddaughter and sister of veterans I'm appalled that this is how those in power would treat our soldiers.
Posted by: Shannon Miller | March 18, 2009 4:36 PM
