Obama will Pull His Call for 3rd Party Insurance for Sev Connected Vets.

[Ioo]

I am sure you all heard of Obama's move to bill 3rd party health insurers for treatments given to Service Connected Vets. This was a dumb move.

Well, I get a "feeling" that this idea will be dropped from the plan in the very near future. I do not know how I know this, but it will read something like this, I think...

"The plan was to give vets better care... blah blah... listened to the VSO's... blah blah blah .... some circumstances this plan could put vets family at risk of losing coverage... blah blah blah... so I am dropping the call for this"

THIS IS A GOOD MOVE ON HIS PART, this plan would have been used my every Republican on the planet, and it would have really hurt him.

I AM a Service Connected vet, and I was pissed as all hell over this plan.

[Dollface]

1. He had an idea. He floated it. Talked to interested parties like veteran's groups instead of

insurance companies and pulled the idea. The point being that he didn't just make a decision in secret and then lie about it after the fact. He was looking for a way to save money and not reduce care for vets unlike the last administration that tried to save money at the cost of veteran's health care.

[ieoeja]

2. Why were you pissed? n/t

[Dollface]

3. Follow-up to my previous comment - But I can't blame you for being paranoid given the shafting vets

have goten in the recent past.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. The proposal was pulled from consideration yesterday.

[Thrill]

5. Obama never said he was planning to do it. He said it was one proposal on the table

[empyreanisles]

6. It wasn't "his call". The idea was brought to him and he said he would consider it