Marine, Take Point, Call for Pre-Authorization, Then Take That Hill

March 17, 2009

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Rees Lloyd is a Patriot, Civil Rights Attorney, American Legion Poohbah, and waaaaaay po’d about BHO’s plan to have our warriors call their HMO’s before going into combat.

NON-VET OBAMA SPARKS FIRESTORM OVER SCREW-VET PROPOSAL: Millions For ACORN, Nada for Vets

President Barack Hussein Obama, the only President in the modern era other than Bill Clinton not to have served the country in the military, has set off a firestorm of angry criticism from veterans over his proposal to try to balance his budget by compelling veterans receiving Veterans Administration care for service-connected injuries to pay for VA services through their private health insurance protecting theirselves and their families in the case of non-service connected injuries or illnesses.
Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion, the largest wartime veterans organization in the world with 1.6-million members in over 14,000 Posts, blasted Obama’s proposal.
“It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan.” Commander Rehbein said. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refusedto hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.”
Rehbein, described as very angry after leaving a meeting in the White House with Obama, Chief ofStaff Rahm Emmanuel, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, and Steven Kosiak of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), stated further:
“This reimbursement plan would be inconsistent with the mandate ‘to care for him who shall have borne the battle’ given that the United States governement sent members of the armed forces into harm’s way, and not private insurance companies. I say against that the American Legion does not and will not support any plan that seeks to bill a veteran for treatment of a service connect disability at the very agency that was createdto treat the unique need of America’s veterans.”
Leaders of ten other veterans organizations joined in Rehbein’s oppostion.
While Obama refused to discuss any change in his plan and appears to be going forward with it over veterans objections, the heads of the Veterans Affairs Committees of the House and Senate both immediately issued statements stating that they would refuse to support Obama’s plan, and that it would be “dead on arrival” in their committees.
[Rees Lloyd, a civil rights attorney, is an American Legionnaire and activist in veterans affairs]

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