Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, has joined a growing list of those pushing to privatize VA healthcare.
Filner has called for a "VA card" that can be used at private healthcare providers. (see article below)
This concept has been pushed by Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN), Ranking Member on the House Vets' Committee and Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), Member of the Senate Vets' Committee.
Neither Buyer or Craig are known as friends of veterans. Has Filner joined that list?
What is Filner thinking? He isn't!
For every veteran that leaves to VA system, that system becomes smaller and weaker. When small enough, it will cease to exist.
Filner's job is to help properly fund the VA so it can care for the needs of all veterans, not to help them go anywhere they want for care.
Filner has been known to engage his mouth before he engages his brain...so, maybe he'll rethink this. I certainly hope so.
For more on privatizing the VA, use the VA Watchdog search engine...click here...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/sessearch.php?q=privatize+privatizing&op=or
Story here... http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Vetera
ns+ask+for+more+care&articleId=4f1b751d-1947-42bf-ae87-5a441d2c21f1
Here is a question that I pose, note the bold portion above, if the VA cease to exist then who, what branch of government, pays the disability compensation benefits to veterans and survivors? Will the private hospitals do this? No, they will not, so who does? If no government agency steps up to do this then do VA disability benefits also cease to exits just like the VA? Could happen, then what?
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