{"id":16190,"date":"2009-12-18T06:39:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16190"},"modified":"2009-12-18T06:39:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:39:35","slug":"votevets-medicare-buy-in-helps-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16190","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets: Medicare buy in helps veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate to keep harping on the folks at VoteVets (who am I kidding?), but the other day, dicksmith made the most absurd assumption<\/a> I’ve ever read. In his article he claims that unless there’s a medicare buy-in provision in the health care bill, veterans will suffer. <\/p>\n

Another group that this will hurt greatly is veterans. A recent study out of Harvard found that 2,266 veterans died last year because they did not have health insurance. This is more than 14 times then number of deaths suffered by US troops in Afghanistan in 2008. Without the Medicare buy-in, thousands of Vietnam era veterans-who fall precisely in this age range-will not be able to afford healthcare coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For one thing, that Harvard study which concluded that 2266 veterans died last year from a lack of health care is completely manufactured. From what I’ve read about the study, it was taken from a small sampling and extrapolated across the entire population, ending up with an entirely made up number – instead of actually counting dead bodies. That’s twice in two weeks someone at VoteVets has used that study to scare their readers into backing the health care plan in Congress.<\/p>\n

As far as Vietnam veterans not getting health care as a result of the buy-in going down to defeat, that’s ridiculous. The only veterans who can’t get VA health care are folks without a service-connected disability who make enough money to buy their own insurance. If they can afford their own insurance, why would they want to buy into Medicare? And if a veteran is poor, how can he afford to BUY IN<\/em><\/strong> to Medicare? <\/p>\n

Of course, dicksmith goes right off the rails answering my comments with some crap about the Air Force being unconstitutional without answering the main thrust of my points. I don’t how the buy-in part shoots right over his head. How is a veteran with no money going to afford a buy-in? I guess that sort of pretzel logic is what Soltz requires from his bloggers so they can support the Democrat\/Soros agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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