Such was the public outcry over Obama’s plan to “save” Veteran Affairs from having to finance the medicare costs of wounded war veterans by shifting the financing to private insurers that he flip flopped today and cancelled the proposed legislation. The fact that team Obama was even considering such a plan was absolutely ridiculous. Asking the same people who fought and put their lives on the line for the American Government to then have to pay through increased premiums at their private medicare insurers for their war related injuries is deplorable. Obama should be ashamed. The “change” he has promised has come in the form of hurting the people who built and protect the U.S.

Obama Drops Controversial Health Care Plan for Wounded Veterans

President Obama, after an uproar by veterans groups, has scrapped a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service.

“In considering the third-party billing issue, the administration was seeking to maximize the resources available for veterans,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday in a written statement. “However, the president listened to concerns raised by the [veteran service organizations] that this might, under certain circumstances, affect veterans’ and their families’ ability to access health care.

But the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans group, said the president’s plan would have increased premiums, made insurance unaffordable for veterans and imposed a massive hardship on military families. It could have also prevented small businesses from hiring veterans who have large health care needs, the group said.

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