For a guy who said he wants to honor the service of our veterans, this policy proposal from the VA sounds an awful lot like abandoning them

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

IÂ’m left nearly speechless by this news. Not even Bill Clinton, who loathed the military, would have ever dreamed of making vets pay for treatment of service-connected injuries and disabilities. Even if one were to suggest that veterans generally are owed nothing by the nation after their term of service is over, no individual with even a shred of human decency could argue that those vets with injuries, illnesses and disabilities attributable to their military service are not entitled to the care of a grateful nation.

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