Obama wants to charge disabled veterans for treatment at VA facilities

CNN ^ | 03-10-09 | Adam Levine

[euram]

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.

[Red Badger]

My blood pressure is going thru the roof now!.................

[caver]

You gotta be kidding me........

[mainestategop]

I thought liberals wanted free healthcare?

[NonValueAdded]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat kind of shineola is Shineski hawking here???

[rvoitier]

Yet, 900 million for Hamas to...get well.

[every word in the book]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

No, that means only Liberals will get free health care.

[muawiyah]

This is the same thing Hillarycare had. They are after VA benefits first ~ they'll take them and pass them out to their illegal alien friends.

Next, government employee health insurance ~ they'll give that to their illegal alien friends.

After that everything retirees get, and so on.

It was all laid out by the Hildabeast so it's not at all surprising to find this acolyte of the Antichrist doing the same thing.

[GeronL]

veterans are now rich?

[Semper Mark]

Last straw?

[exist]

I’m going to shut up before the Secret Service shows up at my door.

[Islander7]

But the proposal would be "dead on arrival" if it's sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.

Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.

[Canedawg]

He hates anyone and anything that has to do with defending this country.

He needs to rot in hell.

[Red in Blue PA]

“I thought liberals wanted free healthcare?”

Only for people on welfare. Veterans must pay.

[Vaquero]

serves them right for being despicable military types...

[GeronL]

this is getting ridiculous

[redstateconfidential]

hh nooo they aren't its about crashing the system, destroying the health care system, insulting the Vets, its all in the handbook

[beethovenfan]

If Bush had proposed that, imagine the screaming headlines.

[GeronL]

if its sent to congress?

maybe they will find a backdoor way to do it.

[wombtotomb]

I hear you! Young men and women, go put your life on the line for your country, and when you are wounded in the line of duty, have your private insurance pay for it? Get real! Meanwhile, the lazy asses that sat around complaining about you going to war, have their benefits UPPED and are now extended for those who broke the law to enter the country you fought to protect illegally????

What say you, Jim??