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Congress makes laws. They had a plan that missed passing by one vote - McCain voted it down. Write, call, email your representatives and tell them to get off their fat, lazy arses.
Mitch McConnell said he is only allowing the Senate to take one week off in August instead of the whole month because Dems obstructing has created a backlog of things that need to get done.
Or..he see the handwriting on the wall..and want's to get his agenda through before the slim R majority slips away!
Love how you resorted to posting a video of the signing, rather than an article providing real details.
So Trump signed this bill, but is also pushing Republicans to vote against a bipartisan bill that would provide funding for the project. The White House only wants this to work if funding is cut from places they want it cut to provide the funds.
Even the Military Times was hesitant in praising this heavily.
So we don't even have funding secured yet, Trump wants to block the bipartisan bill that would have provided it. On top of that, the Military is worried that this will be used to outsource more and more VA work to unqualified but cheaper doctors.
Love how you resorted to posting a video of the signing, rather than an article providing real details.
So Trump signed this bill, but is also pushing Republicans to vote against a bipartisan bill that would provide funding for the project. The White House only wants this to work if funding is cut from places they want it cut to provide the funds.
Even the Military Times was hesitant in praising this heavily.
So we don't even have funding secured yet, Trump wants to block the bipartisan bill that would have provided it. On top of that, the Military is worried that this will be used to outsource more and more VA work to unqualified but cheaper doctors.
Beat me to it...nice headline and photo op..but without the funding..it's meaningless. BTW..Veteran's Choice has been a thing for a while now...good for the first two quarters of the fiscal year..then the money runs out..and so does the choice..this is no different.
Yes..the ultimate Conservative plan is to privatize the VA and kill it. Always has been and still is.
You mean non plan, the plan we STILL don't have despite a Republican supermajority in Congress, a Republican president, and even a conservative SC? So how many Republicans does it take to pass a new decent care law? We wouldn't know, because even enough isn't enough.
What republican super majority in congress?
I do recall a super majority in 2009 when the democrats without a singe republican vote passed Obamacare after a year of liberal infighting. A super majority that didn't touch their magical immigration reform.
You may call a republican HC proposal a non-plan but at least if was a step above the ACA.
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Hundreds of Obama rallies? I recall one and that one was about Obamacare. Try again, and bring facts with you next time.
They blocked some 500 bills while Obama was President. (well according to Obama -- so let's say that is a generous number)
Glad to see our politicians getting something constructive done. This should have been one of the first things done last year but better late than never right.
My husband used the Veterans Choice program a little over a year ago for his knee surgery, as he was in chronic pain and the VA couldn't immediately perform surgery (not that he wanted them to anyway, based on his experiences in the VA hospital).
The surgeon accepted the Veterans Choice healthcare system (TriWest), but ever since, we have been going around and around in circles with the anesthesiologist, the VA and TriWest, as the Veterans Choice program has declined to cover the cost of the anesthesiologist for knee surgery, saying the surgeon was in their system of approved providers but the anesthesiologist was not. We weren't told any of this prior, and the Veterans Choice program were the ones who set up the surgery with the surgeon and anesthesiologist in the first place
I absolutely think expanding Veterans Choice is a good thing, but based on our experience, I hope they get their act together.
Anyway, that's the end of my rant!
I'm not a Trump supporter but I do support anything that helps Veterans, so, I'm pleased with this, providing they improve the program.
I agree. There are so many loopholes and restrictions that it almost isn't worth the headache. I use the Choice program for Pain Management but everything that is a recommended treatment from the outside PM has to be communicated to back to the VA then sent back to the outside PM which takes as much time as if I would have seen the VA in the 30-day time frame. It's exhausting. I also have to see a specialist which the VA has no problem telling me 45-60 days but don't worry U of M wait is 6 months!
Good for Trump looking out for our Veterans, something Obama was lacking.
Trump wants to cut $154 billion dollars of veterans benefits over the next decade. These budget cuts will decrease 1 million veterans Social Security Disability benefits, cause 400,000 veterans to lose access to critical nutrition assistance, cut funding for veteran job training and employment services, and cut rental assistance for 340,000 low-income veterans. https://www.americanprogress.org/iss...ying-veterans/ https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/tru...-care-of-them/
Trump wants to cut veterans disability benefits and use those funds to pay for VA Privatization. And Trumps privatization plan would cut veterans with disabilities benefits by nearly two-thirds. https://www.afge.org/article/trump-b...privatization/
Trump plans to cut the "unemployability benefit" for veterans. Trump's proposed cuts would impact about 225,000 veterans and take $3.6 billion dollars from them, and Trump wants to transfer that funding to profit-making medical providers. https://www.military.com/daily-news/...bled-vets.html
Big move by Trump...and barely a whisper in the MSM about it.
Because it's fake! With no funding..it is not real..so what's the big deal?
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, saying the surgeon was in their system of approved providers but the anesthesiologist was not. We weren't told any of this prior, and the Veterans Choice program were the ones who set up the surgery with the surgeon and anesthesiologist in the first place 
