Is the Obama admin planning to shortchange our troops on medical care?

What the hell?!

When the adults start taking charge in the WH, will someone please let me know?

9 Responses to "Is the Obama admin planning to shortchange our troops on medical care?"

Great White Rat says:

March 17, 2009 at 12:05 am

When the adults start taking charge in the WH, will someone please let me know?

At the earliest, that would be January 20, 2013.

But all is not lost. From your link:

In fact it is so outrageous that even Sen Patty Murray (D WA) has said it is dead on arrival…as Liberal and wacko as she is, even she sees this as a bad thing.
LSU says:

March 17, 2009 at 12:35 am

Hopefully she (Sen Murray) will stick to her guns. I don’t have a lot of faith in her, and it galls me to have to show her any gratitude…
Leaning Straight Up » The American Legion reports that the plan to charge wounded heroes for medical care is going forward says:

March 17, 2009 at 12:40 am

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Liberty Pundit says:

March 17, 2009 at 2:42 am

But They Care About The Troops…

Or, more precisely, they SAY they care. But honestly, how much CAN they when they try to do stuff like this?
Hattip to ST.
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Severian says:

March 17, 2009 at 10:01 am

I’m still hoping and praying for a military coup.
teqjack says:

March 17, 2009 at 3:53 pm

Probably, what passed for thinking here was that if you have non-government health insurance it should pay for everything.

Which is pure fantasy. Not only are at least some of those policies less expensive because the insurers knew some things would be paid by military insurance, but most policies exclude a host of “pre-existing” conditions – regardless of origin.

As with the proposal to tax an employer’s contribution to insurance as an individual’s income – blasted during the 2008 campaigns but now OK, especially as McCain’s “but offset with a deduction” has been dropped – this is probably a step on the road to government-only health care as done in the UK, rather than government-plus-private as in France.
Public Secrets says:

March 18, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Tipping point?…

I wrote before of being aghast at the Obama administration’s idea to make US military personnel buy private insurance to pay for treatment for combat wounds by the VA. I felt certain they’d realize how stupid and insulting this proposal……
Leaning Straight Up » Obama backs off of billing Veterans for medical care says:

March 19, 2009 at 2:38 am

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Karmadancer says:

March 19, 2009 at 1:58 pm

(*phew*) Looks like — at least for now — they’ve backed off:

Via Leaning Straight Up

Why do I get the sneaking suspicion someone’s just waiting until we turn our attention somewhere else for the moment?

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