Anything for a Veteran
Topic: Decline of the West
Among his countless campaign promises, Barack Obama assured us that he would provide this country’s wounded and injured military veterans with better care than they ever got during the reign of the wicked Bush.
And here’s how the President plans to make good on that promise: “he intends to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans with service-connected disabilities.”
Not surprisingly, David Rehbein, the head of the American Legion, was outraged when he received this news from Barack Obama personally during a meeting on Monday. As he so aptly observes in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, “According to the U.S. Constitution, it is the president and Congress who send troops in harm's way, not the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield.” The care of veterans with service-connected disabilities is a sacred national responsibilty that the American people are more than willing to accept. This attempt to bully private insurers into paying the bill is a cheap political stunt, unworthy of a great nation. But perhaps it accurately reflects the mind-set of the Obama Administration.
Incidentally, this proposal is also extremely bad politics. Did the President really not understand how the story would come across? When I first heard about it, I assumed that it was the brain-dead notion of some obscure bureaucrat. I was amazed—simply amazed—to discover that President Obama himself was pitching the idea to the head of the American Legion. What the hell is wrong with this guy?
Posted by tmg110
at 9:08 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 9:29 AM EDT