{"id":1055,"date":"2009-03-20T01:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T06:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2009-03-20T01:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T06:45:29","slug":"white-house-lets-trim-injured-vets-benefits-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/white-house-lets-trim-injured-vets-benefits-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Let’s trim injured vets’ benefits to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"scf4611-021\"We can purge our grandchildren\u2019s future to bailout people who irresponsibly get themselves in debit, yet the President wants to \u201csave\u201d money by removing wounded vets benefits?<\/span>To: POLITICAL EDITORS
\nContact: Craig Roberts of The American Legion, +1-202-263-2982 Office, +1-202-406-0887 Cell
\nWASHINGTON, March 16 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ — The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases. <\/span><\/p>\n

The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President’s Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment<\/p>\n

“It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,” said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.” Read on<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We can purge our grandchildren\u2019s future to bailout people who irresponsibly get themselves in debit, yet the President wants to \u201csave\u201d money by removing wounded vets benefits?To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Craig Roberts of The American Legion, +1-202-263-2982 Office, +1-202-406-0887 Cell WASHINGTON, March 16 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ — The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-h1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}