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BO to Vets, FY (Updated And Bumped)

President Obama is mulling declaring war on wounded veterans, David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers [1]:

WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries. The plan would be an about-face on what veterans believe is a long-standing pledge to pay for health care costs that result from their military service.

 

But in a White House meeting Monday, veterans groups apparently failed to persuade President Obama to take the plan off the table.

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Veterans claim that the costs of treating expensive war injuries could raise their insurance costs, as well as those for their employers. Some worried that it also could make it more difficult for disabled veterans to find work

More, Gateway Pundit [2], and we second the motion of This Ain’t Hell [3]:

To General Shinseki I say RESIGN NOW. This is the only possible way to preserve your integrity as a soldier’s soldier. To do anything less is to slap the face of every wounded warrior and leave yourself as nothing more than a liar and pathetic political hack.  I don’t call for you resignation because of any malfeasance that you did but as a principled position against this atrocity and solidarity with the soldiers that you once commanded.

BO proposes for wounded veternans to pay for their own medical treatment.   This proposal will not stand.   To you, Mr. Presidnet, we return your one fingered salute.

Addendum:  (Updated and bumped)

This ain’t Hell [4], is reporting victory:

Sources tell us that the White House called the Veteran Service Organization representatives back for a meeting at 1 PM today to announce that they’re backtracking on their proposal to force veterans into health insurance to pay for service-connected treatment. Despite the fact that the Obama/Emanuel/Shinseki team made it clear that they couldn’t be persuaded, somehow they got persuaded. I guess when their own Congress turned against them, they figured it wasn’t worth the political capital they’d have to expend

Well done gentlemen.