By Oliver North,Real Clear Politics
Wounded Vets are honored at a baseball game
The Department of Veterans Affairs claims this is its “mission.”The slogan —extracted from the last paragraph of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address —is inscribed proudly on metal plaques at the entrance of the VA’s headquarters in Washington. The Obama administration made a mockery of this pledge by proposing to charge veterans’private insurance companies for treatment of service-connected injuries,wounds or sickness. Had the White House not rescinded this immoral and unethical proposal,the VA could have been sued for false advertising.
The “O-Team”claimed that charging veterans’private insurers for service-connected medical care would have “saved”$540 million. How they concocted this number is anyone’s guess,but the affront offers a window into the kind of “thinking”going on in this administration.