I don't know how they will do it when they can't even take care of the Veterans. The only vets with free health-care are those who are service connected, receive disability payments, even this is opened to scrutiny, or can take years to receive, or for those who can prove various exposures to chemicals, like agent orange, or for those unemployed or under-employed. My understanding is that those who serve, or served in Iraq or Afghanistan do get free health-care, this new legislation was passed under the senior Bush admin if I'm not mistaken, all the rest have to pay or their insurance has to pay if any go to a Veterans Hospital for care, even if they have to stay, they are charged for their food. Most who have employee insurance coverage will go to their private health-care provider so they can schedule their own appointments and avoid long waits.
The VA bureaucracy eats up alot of the money that should be going to veterans care, and the hierarchy like any govt bureaucracy are paid extremely well as they cut hospital working staff but not administrators and then continue to ask govt for more and more money.
The govt not only broke their promises to the vets who made it back home, but to all those they promised who didn't, and they were the ones who enacted the draft. Today's soldiers know what they are getting into by joining, its all volunteer. I guess this is what justified them breaching their promises, the ones who were drafted and had no choice are second class vets. The VA is set up to collect, when they shouldn't be allowed to ask anything from them, other than their discharge forms having served honorably. Its despicable, this govt should never ask anything more, and they should remember the graveyards who are filled with soldiers they made those same promises to whose families never received anything but burial insurance, and died for those who made it back home...............this includes, WW11, Korea, Vietnam vets who served during those conflicts.
How many of those who served or serve in elected capacities have family members served or were serving in those conflicts?............Bush Jr., is just one example of the mentality, as long as its us, and not them, had his connections is just one of their pretentious misguided allusions of why our young should serve in the military as they fulfill their poliitical ambitions getting rich off these wars that they pursue to create..............the only justified war we've been in thus far was WW11.
Their meddling in the Afghan war to resist Russia brought Bin Laden to our door, one he shouldn't have been able to penetrate, speaks volulmes, and is it any wonder why Russia plots against the US?. But leave it to them and they will find a means to justify it, like Vietnam.
