Obama Reverses on Vet Health Plan
According to Carbon Credit Pelosi:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration is abandoning a controversial plan to charge private insurers for treatment of veterans’ service-connected ailments, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday.
Pelosi made the announcement while meeting with a group of veterans on Capitol Hill.
Veterans’ representatives and members of Congress have angrily opposed the proposal, which White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said was never finalized.
Leaders from 11 veterans groups discussed their position in a meeting Wednesday afternoon with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
On Monday, the groups met with President Obama, Emanuel, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and Steven Kosiak, director in charge of defense spending for the Office of Management and Budget.
The administration saw the plan as a way of raising more than $500 million in revenue for the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, veterans groups saw it is a violation of what they said is the government’s moral obligation to treat veterans injured during service to their country.
In addition, they believed it would lead to veterans and their families losing their private insurance or premiums rising because of the high costs of treating many service-related injuries.
The head of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee, Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, said Tuesday his committee would “not advance any such legislation.”
Oh how I’d love to be a fly on the wall.
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