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The best way to tell if a Military recruiter is lying is to see if his lips are moving and hear if any words are coming out. I was told the same nonsense but at least I didn't believe it.
Republicans to Vets: If you're not dead or visibly injured, sorry about that. You're on your own.
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Originally Posted by sailordave
are looking to end VA healthcare for over 1.3 million veterans who are Priority 7 & 8. These veterans are the least disabled veterans using the system, usually with disability ratings of 0 percent or no service-connected disability.
While a Canadian with no dog in this hunt; I've got an ex-serviceman's opinion to put forth:
Servicemen who left the military at their convenience (choice) prior to retiring, without sustaining an injury, should not have access to the same (any) level of health care or insurance provided by the VA to "actual" veterans who sustained an injury while in the military, involved in action or in a theater of action, forced into retirement or forced to leave the military via that injury prior to retirement.
It's the same stuff up here. I, in no way consider myself eligble, as many others do, to even apply to use the "veteran's" license plate from having spent 3 years in the RCN in the sixties. These, rights, perks or whatever should be designated as available for those who walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk only.
I left the armed forces under my own volition and then accepted the responsibilty to provide my own insurance top-up beyond that of universally provided.
There's something wrong with the picture I have of two vet's undergoing similar physio; one with a leg missing from having stepped on a land mine in Iraq and one who tripped coming out of a bar on ninth street at 3 am.
While a Canadian with no dog in this hunt; I've got an ex-serviceman's opinion to put forth:
Servicemen who left the military at their convenience (choice) prior to retiring, without sustaining an injury, should not have access to the same (any) level of health care or insurance provided by the VA to "actual" veterans who sustained an injury while in the military, involved in action or in a theater of action, forced into retirement or forced to leave the military via that injury prior to retirement.
It's the same stuff up here. I, in no way consider myself eligble, as many others do, to even apply to use the "veteran's" license plate from having spent 3 years in the RCN in the sixties. These, rights, perks or whatever should be designated as available for those who walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk only.
I left the armed forces under my own volition and then accepted the responsibilty to provide my own insurance top-up beyond that of universally provided.
There's something wrong with the picture I have of two vet's undergoing similar physio; one with a leg missing from having stepped on a land mine in Iraq and one who tripped coming out of a bar on ninth street at 3 am.
Is this even possible? Am I way off base here?
You make a very valid point.
The problem that we have here in this country is that there are many, many folks with an 'entitlement' mentality and that mentality extends to some former vets.
Me .. I wouldn't be caught dead in a VA Hospital .. W-E-L-L .. Maybe dead!
Gee, another post distorting what is ACTUALLY proposed.
"are looking to end VA healthcare for over 1.3 million veterans who are Priority 7 & 8. These veterans are the least disabled veterans using the system, usually with disability ratings of 0 percent or no service-connected disability."
I have a further example of a "Veteran's" viewpoint. My FIL was RCAF who was then 'ceded' to the RAF upon hi arrival 'in theater' during WWII to then fly 67 missions as a 'tail gunner' in Lancasters and Liberator's. He sustained a knee injury that plagued him all of his adult life (limp and pain) from a crash landing upon returning from one of those missions.
He was actually contacted here in Canada in the late 80's by RAF officials reviewing wartime records querying the extent of his disability with a view to providing a small pension if he had proof of any ongoing malaise from that injury. His answer: "it did not prevent me from making a good living at "design engineering" so I do not consider myself to have been disabled." His doctors could have easily provided whatever proof was required but he wanted no part of that.
Of course this would be different from those vets who've suffered a drastic 'quality of life' reduction from a service related accident. Shouldn't it be conducive to that degree of severity?
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