Veterans speak out on health care bill, say it could hurt 2 million on Medicaid

[TexasTowelie]

On the day Senate Republicans unveiled their health care bill, some military veterans say what the GOP rolled out is "un-American."

Veterans from across Tennessee said they're speaking out on behalf of 2 million veterans nationwide who they think will lose or see reduced health care coverage because of the move by Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.

Led by 36-year retired Marine Corps veteran Lt. Gen. John Castellaw, who lives in rural Crockett County in West Tennessee, he and others said the proposed health care bill would potentially boot millions of veterans off health care that many depend on to supplement coverage or just give them access to doctors.

He said many veterans are not eligible for care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and sometimes VA benefits don't fully cover the costs of health care.

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/22/veterans-speak-out-health-care-bill-say-could-hurt-2-million-medicaid/417693001/

[Thinkingabout]

1. I do not get a good feeling from whatever bill the republicans would write. It is all about hate

and trying to disparage the citizens of the US. The ACA was not perfect but changing and improving would have been the way to go but this Congress is more about hurting and throwing everyone off of health insurance. It is a terrible state we are in for people to be thrown out of getting health care. I hear some of this will not happen until 2020, we have to change the face of Congress and get Democrats who knows how to write a health care bill.

[onecaliberal]

2. What in the Fucking hell did these people think they were voting for when they vote R

[TexasTowelie]

3. 2 Tennessee inmates bilked IRS out of $310K in tax refund scheme, records show

The IRS has paid out more than $310,000 in tax refunds in the names of Tennessee prisoners in a scheme concocted and carried out by two inmates, court records show.

Larry Steven Covington Jr., 38, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the IRS while serving time in a Tennessee penitentiary and using fellow inmates' Social Security numbers he apparently purloined.

He is the second Tennessee inmate to confess carrying out such a scheme. Career criminal James Glenn Collins pleaded guilty in December 2014 to a similar scam, and court records suggest he may have taught Covington the ropes in deceiving the IRS.

Between the two of them, they filed hundreds of tax returns claiming refunds owed hundreds of inmates, most of whom had been unemployed for years. Some had never worked a legal job in their adult lives.

Read more: http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/06/22/irs-paid-out-310-k-refunds-tennessee-prisoners/414812001/