Sunday, March 22, 2009

We Sent In The Clowns

Veterans are the latest Americans to learn the hard way that President Obama's actions often belies his words. Obama met last Monday with leaders of various veterans groups. As David K. Rehbein, national commander of the 2.6 million member American Legion, wrote in Tuesday's WSJ, "Currently when veterans go to a V.A. hospital for treatment of a service-connected disability, they receive the care without any billing to the veterans or the veterans' insurance." Obama told the veterans Monday that he intends to force private insurance companies to pay for these services.

Rehbein explains,
"Maximum insurance coverage limits could be reached through treatment of the veteran's condition alone. That would leave the rest of the family without healthcare benefits! Thousands of veterans own small businesses. Their insurance premiums will be drastically raised to pay for service-connected disabilities. Many businesses might be tempted to avoid hiring veterans for fear of the impact they would have on insurance rates."


The vets are pissed, Mr. Obama. Honor means something to them. Promises mean something to them. You are making a big mistake.

4 comments:

Mrs. Who said...

I wouldn't have believed that Obama could screw up things so badly so fast.

Terri Wagner said...

I'm grateful he's overreaching. Maybe he can be stopped that way. The very insult to service men and women still in harm's way astonds me and angers me.

mushroom said...

There are actually two possibilities with Obama and his posse. They may be laughably incompetent, but they may be insidiously malicious. If they put a crunch on private insurers, the insurance companies are going to be more supportive of some kind of universal, government controlled health care. AIG, remember, is an insurance company -- not like United Health Care or those, but still the intervention is setting a precedent.

I'm not sure that the bonus thing with AIG wasn't meant to be exposed. The outrage is meant to help fuel the government's ability to levy special punitive taxes against "problem" people. If they can use it against AIG employees, they can use it against any company that does not do what they want.

These jerks are at least as dangerous as they are incompetent.

Gecko said...

Do you suppose that Obama's house passed "Volunteer Corps" and the Civilian Security Force is calculated to receive the health benefits as those fine men and women that put themselves in harms way.