The Real Veterans Scandal: 258,000 Have No Healthcare Thanks to GOP Governors

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The Real Veterans Scandal: 258,000 Have No Healthcare Thanks to GOP Governors
Posted by: S Lee Caudle in Economics 101, Noteworthy News, Policy, Social Issues May 23, 2014

While the GOP/Tea Party fiddles, blaming Obama for everything that’s wrong, our Veterans are dying. This is the same Congress where the majority have never served in the military.

First we send soldiers to fight our wars and we promise them we’ll take care of them. Then we don’t provide them with adequate protection while they’re in combat. Just as a reminder, at the onset of the “no real weapons of mass destruction war in Iraq.” The Bush administration routinely sent soldiers into combat without adequate combat gear. Consequently many of the veterans today are those who were sent to war ill prepared. Now we’re denying them adequate medical care and basic living necessities like food and shelter.

There isn’t one problem with Veterans, there are multiple problems that our Veterans are facing. And according to the American Community Service survey in March 2013…

“Analysis of the 2008-2010 American Community Survey (ACS) indicates that 535,000 uninsured veterans and 174,000 uninsured spouses of veterans—or four in 10 uninsured veterans and one in four uninsured spouses—have incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) and could qualify for Medicaid or new subsidies for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).”

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1. More of the GOP

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"Bonus Soldiers"

"Bush's Stop The Loss's"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22sun2.html?_r=0
Stopping ‘Stop-Loss’



published: March 21, 2009


The men and women who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have made many sacrifices over the last seven years, including repeated and extended combat deployments. So it is very good news that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to phase out the deeply unpopular stop-loss program, which forces soldiers to remain in the military after their enlistments end.

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2. It is well passed time that the majority of Americans ave been made aware the the Republicans

in Congress do not give a crap about the care of Veterans. They are in no way patriotic.

Refusing healtcare through the VA and through refusing to extend Medicaid in their Red State is despicable. Medicaid would pick up what the VA does not pay.