Obama Controversy Concerning Veterans Paying for War Injuries

Here is a source from the very liberal Washington Post regarding Obama’s proposal to bill veterans’ private insurance companies for treatment of combat-related injuries:

• www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031702537.html

Here are other facts:

• On March16, 2009, members of the American Legion met with President Obama where he 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 non-profit veterans service organization, American Legion, issued a statement voicing its concerns on its website shortly after the meeting.
• Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion said that Obama “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.”
• A March 17, 2009, CNN article said the “chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs vowed Tuesday that the plan would never gain the panel’s approval. ‘VA’s sacred duty is to care for veterans injured in honorable service to our nation, and the department should not turn to wounded warriors’ private insurance to pay for combat injures,’ said Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii. ‘Under my chairmanship, the Veterans’ Affairs Committee will not advance any such legislation.’”
• On the afternoon of March 18, 2009, Fox News reported that the Obama administration has changed their mind on this plan.

Apparently, the exact quotes that people have posted saying that they were Obama quotes cannot be proven because no video can be found with him saying those nasty quotes. Therefore, I am assuming that they are false and fabricated. However, we cannot move away from the fact the Obama actually came up with the idea of billing veterans’ private insurance companies to treat their combat-related injuries. That, in and of itself, is repugnant. So, if we just stick to the facts, the whole idea that Obama actually wanted to do this is preposterous. We don’t even need to consider the false quotes to get turned off with Obama sticking it to the Purple Heart veterans.