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Obama's budget would defund VA program allowing vets to seek care outside system
The Obama administration is seeking to allow the diversion of funding from a program the president signed into law just in August, after much dispute.
The Veterans Choice Program, authored by Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, provides military vets with a "choice" card that allows them to seek healthcare more quickly at designated facilities outside the dysfunctional Veterans Affairs medical system. The Department of Veterans Affairs, though, says many Choice card holders aren't using their cards, and that most veterans prefer receiving treatment at VA facilities.
The Obama administration is seeking to allow the diversion of funding from a program the president signed into law just in August, after much dispute.
The Veterans Choice Program, authored by Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, provides military vets with a "choice" card that allows them to seek healthcare more quickly at designated facilities outside the dysfunctional Veterans Affairs medical system. The Department of Veterans Affairs, though, says many Choice card holders aren't using their cards, and that most veterans prefer receiving treatment at VA facilities.
It's bogus horse hockey. The VA wants to keep vets in their system so they can continue to get big budget dollars they then lose, abuse, and misuse, and Obama doesn't want the Choice Program because it would undermine his secret agenda for a single-payer healthcare system for everyone. And this after he, in the State of the Union address, and the Democrats in Congress, touted their support of more money for the VA to build new hospitals and pay more doctors.
Republicans and Democrats may both be most incompetent, but at least some Republicans are trying to cut the budget and support veterans. What are the Democrats doing, other than lying to their faces and then stabbing them in the back?