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American Legion Weighs In on Arlington Scandal
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsFor an update of the American Legion's position, click here. WASHINGTON (July 2) -- The nation's largest veterans group weighed in today on the growing mismanagement scandal at Arlington National Cemetery, saying it may be time to strip the Army of responsibility for the hallowed burial ground. "I think common sense should prevail," Phil Riley, director of The American Legion's national security and foreign relations division, said in a statement to AOL News, indicating that it may be time for the Department of Veterans Affairs to take over the cemetery's operation. The organization has ...
Government-Run Health Care? It's Already Here
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 8) -- So what if the Senate ditches the public option? Even without so-called "socialized medicine," there still will be plenty of government-run health care to go around. Never mind that the public debate and advocacy ads depict nightmare scenarios of "government bureaucrats" denying medical care, the recent controversy over breast cancer screening being only the latest. Taxpayers already cover nearly half of the nation's health care spending. The government paid 46.2 percent of medical bills in 2007, according to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. By ...
Texas Veterans Hospital Bills Sexual Assault Victims
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe New York Times is reporting that a veterans health clinic in Texas is passing the cost of treating soldiers sexually assaulted while in the military right back to the soldiers themselves – and the practice may be alarmingly widespread. ...
Administration Considering Plan to Charge Vets for Care
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Obama Administration confirmed that it is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for health care they receive at government-run hospitals with private insurance. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed that that plan is under consideration at a hearing on Capitol Hill yesteray. Although not a formal proposal, the idea was met with bipartisan derision from members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, who declared it "dead on arrival."The Administration included in its 2010 budget proposal an increase in "third-party collections" at VA health care centers. ...
Turnabout is Fair Play: Obama Picks Shinseki to Head Veterans Affairs
By David Knowles - Politics DailyGeneral Eric Shinseki, the first Asian American commander to attain the Army's 4-star rank, was essentially ushered into retirement for offering Congress a blunt assessment of the number of troops it would take to secure Iraq in the aftermath of a then-theoretical war. Shinseki's ouster, especially in the wake of all that went wrong in Iraq, seemed to epitomize all that was wrong with a Donald Rumsfeld-led Defense Department, and gave further ammunition to those who claimed W. was a president in a plastic bubble, not interested in hearing dissenting views. Well, president-elect Barack Obama ...
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