The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President’s Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment

barack-obama-snob.jpgLet me get this straight. We had no problem whatsoever scraping together $900 million to send to the terrorist group responsible for the deaths of innocent Israeli women and children, and we have no problem whatsoever committing $650 million to provide more and more coupons for digital television converter boxes, $335 million for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, $300 million for fancy electric golf carts, $400 million for research into the farce that is global warming and a whopping $8 billion on a pet project for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, but we force our finest and bravest men and women who have put everything on the line for America to eat another bullet — in order to generate $540 million?

The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with Hussein Obama today in which they discussed a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Hussein Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases. From Yahoo:

“It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,” said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.”

The Commander, clearly angered as he emerged from the session said, “This reimbursement plan would be inconsistent with the mandate ‘ to care for him who shall have borne the battle’ given that the United States government sent members of the armed forces into harm’s way, and not private insurance companies. I say again that The American Legion does not and will not support any plan that seeks to bill a veteran for treatment of a service connected disability at the very agency that was created to treat the unique need of America’s veterans!”

Commander Rehbein was among a group of senior officials from veterans service organizations joining the President, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and Steven Kosiak, the overseer of defense spending at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The group’s early afternoon conversation at The White House was precipitated by a letter of protest presented to the President earlier this month. The letter, co-signed by Commander Rehbein and the heads of ten colleague organizations, read, in part, ” There is simply no logical explanation for billing a veteran’s personal insurance for care that the VA has a responsibility to provide. While we understand the fiscal difficulties this country faces right now, placing the burden of those fiscal problems on the men and women who have already sacrificed a great deal for this country is unconscionable.”

Update 3/18/2009 – Even Obama’s Comedy Central surrogate, Jon Stewart isn’t liking this too much.

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March 16, 2009 · Filed Under Barack HUSSEIN Obama


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  • http://yahoo steve verhoevcen

    NOW I remember where I saw Barrack before! He was that used car salesman outside Fort Hood Texas when I was a private in the Army that sold me a used warranty on that car that never made it off the lot.

  • http://yahoo steve verhoevcen

    America let us introduce you to General “betray-us”