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mitty14u2

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Thu May 12, 2016, 10:47 PM May 2016

Donald Trump Adviser Signals Plan to Change Veterans’ Health Care [View all]

Source: Wall Street Journal

GOP front-runner would likely push VA toward privatization, shift to an insurance model

Donald Trump says the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health-care system is badly broken, and this week his campaign released some guidelines that would steer changes he would implement if he wins the presidency.

While short on details, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee would likely push VA health care toward privatization and might move for it to become more of an insurance provider like Medicare rather than an integrated hospital system, said Sam Clovis, Mr. Trump’s chief policy adviser, in an interview.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-adviser-signals-plan-to-change-veterans-health-care-1463064129

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-adviser-signals-plan-to-change-veterans-health-care-1463064129



The Republican Play Book has been for Decades, Screw it up or Under fund a program then say privatize! Congress is now cutting the GI bill housing and school. Trump seems to be oblivious this and so many other things that have to do with are country or being president.
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