Veterans Health Care Costs Increase Proposals

From time to time, the Bush Administration has proposed health care cost savings measures that would have increased out-of-pocket costs for military and retired military personnel. Some ideas floated by Obama would do the same. Read the article here...

I have worked for Veterans Administration since 1980 maintaining the stub out your cigarettes doggy sandboxes in the smokers hall of shame at the back of our hospitals. I have seen waves of...

• Cut back on non-service connected coverages.
• Increase non-service connected coverages.

What health care costs do you think our nation should cover for non-service connected veterans?  Someone joins the military, serves his time Stateside and retires.  Years later he's being treated at a VA for a non-service connected condition of high blood pressure.  Should the VA treat him?

Would it make a difference whether he served at a desk job in Iraq?

Of course, if a soldier suffers for a service connected job, we should be liable for his treatment.

I just cannot sort things out!  Help me...

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