{"id":12949,"date":"2009-07-24T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2009-07-24T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:20:40","slug":"al-cdr-to-obama-hands-off-vet-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12949","title":{"rendered":"AL Cdr to Obama; Hands off Vet Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all of this talk about altering the health care system in this country, the American Legion Commander, David Rehbein<\/a>, spoke up the other day for veterans;<\/p>\n

The national commander of the nation’s largest veterans service organization has reacted to tonight’s urgent call by President Obama for national health care reform.<\/p>\n

“While The American Legion appreciates the complexity of the healthcare reform challenge facing the president and Congress,” said David K. Rehbein, “on behalf of our nation’s 26-million veterans and the nearly two million personnel now on active duty in more than 130 countries, we urge Congress to ensure that veterans’ and military health care not be part of any national health care bill. They should be exempt in the legislation.”<\/p>\n

Rehbein added, “Our nation must maintain its long standing tradition that veterans’ and military health care systems will remain independent and focused on our most deserving citizens.<\/p>\n

“The American Legion has a proud tradition of securing and preserving the earned benefits of America’s veterans,” Rehbein said. “Ensuring timely access to quality healthcare for today’s military and veterans is of paramount concern. These are the citizens who have borne our battles in previous wars as they still are in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have earned our care the hard way. We, as a nation, have an obligation to ensure that their healthcare is not compromised,” he concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an issue that’s near and dear to my heart. Military Health Care has been the foundation of my financial planning since I decided to reenlist back in 1977. I knew that I’d have meager paychecks for the rest of my career, but I’d tolerate that for quality, dependable health care for me and my family. A lot of folks complain about military care, but I’ve never had a problem with it and I’d hate to be thrown out of military care for some kind of social program.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t hear any other VSO standing up for veterans’ health care in this way. The American Legion commander also stood up to the President on the issue of forcing disabled, service-connected veterans into the insurance pool. It seems to me that because of the whole insurance thing, this administration would love to throw veterans into the general population for our health care just to save money, irrespective of the quality of care.<\/p>\n

I’d like to see some sort of unified response from all of the VSOs on this issue, instead of some touting their free rides for veterans or campaigning for the end of DADT. Veteran health care has always been the first casualty of budget cuts, so I applaud the American Legion’s National Commander for leading the way and making a preemptive strike.<\/p>\n

Added:<\/strong> For the record, and in response to an email I saw passed around today, this is NOT our new logo;<\/p>\n

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