Obama keeps promising that if you have a health care policy now, you can keep it under the proposed health care reform bills being considered. But are these bills planning to revise Veteran’s health care benefits such that, whereas they paid little to nothing before except for small co-pays, now they will have to buy an additional policy to generate money to help pay for those that are not covered?
How will Veteran’s health care benefits be affected by ObamaCare?
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Yes, everyone will be required to have Obama’s version of coverage, the only exceptions are members of the House and Senate, and Oval Office.
I believe the answer to your question is this: EVENTUALLY, yes.
Since you did not make clear that the benefits are provided by the VA or as being a retiree, the reality is that the benefits will be provided by a civilian employer, like 98% of all people.
Yes, we will ALL have eventually a new policy in that benefits will be reduced, and costs will go up. Obama will just call it a new name, tell everybody how nothing has changed and then raise taxes on everything will earn or spend on.
And it will continue in my opinon. I don’t trust ObamaCare anymore than I trust Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi. Do you?????
I dont think anyone has gotten this one correct. The healthcare bill does NOT revise any sort of VA coverage. The bill has been signed, and is set in stone. All that is left now is for the right wing media to start accurately reporting the facts.
You are required to have some form of healthcare. Thats it. These people out there telling you all sorts of fancy fairy tales of economic collapse and totalitarian obama regimes are being ridiculous.
What the healthcare bill did was create a new “insurance exchange” that allows people who couldnt afford or werent eligible for insurance to purchase it now (and are required) People too poor are given a subsidy, and those who were ineligible due to prior existing conditions are now eligible.
The sky is not falling.
Obama has not enacted martial law.
There are no death panels coming for grandma.
The health care bill in a nutshell is:
1) the status quo for all those with health care insurance is UNCHANGED, ie, nothing changes for these people;
2) those without health care coverage are required to do so, but those deemed too poor to afford it would have avenues, like government subsidies, etc, to help them to get the coverage.
Moreover, more protection will be given to everyone, as subsequently the coverage would move towards portability so that it goes along with you even when you change jobs/employment. IF the system fine-tunes, with single payer option, a cheaper exchange (providing choice and competition and as a BULK purchaser/negotiator to negotiate better deals for coverage) could be available to provide alternatives so that unscrupulous insurance companies have LESS opportunities to rip you off.
Just hang with the VA and ignore all of that buffoonery.
No, absolutely not. We veterans already have a policy that was paid for by our service to our nation. This has never been a problem for us until both Bush presidencies, because they BOTH wanted to “PRIVATIZE” our VA system, something I helped fight off. I first discovered this scheme of GW’s by inadvertently infiltrating Phyllis Schafly’s right-wing religious-coup group (I accompanied a newly-made friend to one of the GOP’s “planning” meetings) in St. Louis (part of the whole The Family, Youth With A Mission/YWAM world dominance thing identified by Sharlet, 2008 and Goldberg, 2006). As part of their privatizing effort under GW/Cheney and the GOP majority between 2001 and 2007, the VA medical facilities across this nation (including mine) were de-funded and were told they had to “outsource” services (like dental and some emergency care), which we protested (I got up and walked out when I was transported by ambulance to a CIVILIAN hospital for chest pains instead of getting care at John Cochran (FULLY EQUIPPED TO PROVIDE MY VA CARE)! Our dental care was sent to a COLLEGE DENTAL FACILITY when everything to provide our care was right there at the VA!
From DAY ONE of the Obama administration, our VA medical system was REFUNDED (more than $1.6 billion right away). Both First Lady Michelle and President Obama have been heavily involved in helping military families and in being supportive of troops’ and veterans’ medical needs. Our health care benefits have already been IMPROVED because of President Obama’s policies—under GW I had to wait 3 or even 4 months for an appointment because of all the GOP’s budget reductions, but now I get seen within 3 weeks (an improvement). I am seen at my appointment time, whereas before the VA was overrun and overbooked and an 8 am appointment might get you seen by 2 p.m or later. And unless returning veterans have private insurance they wish to use, we are covered for our health care. I am a service-incurred disabled veteran, so mine has always been 100% coverage.
There are live sessions for Q&A on the whitehouse.gov page…if you have these questions you ought to participate. You can also e-mail the White House off that same website page and they do reply.