Our "fearless leaders" have repeatedly underestimated the amount of time, effort and money required to complete their stated objectives. They expected the Iraqi people to welcome us with open arms after a decade of economic sanctions. They don't seem to understand why people at home and abroad can't see their genius. Pretty well gives one the impression that they are totally clueless.
From proposals to cut veterans benefits by closing many VA hospitals and clinics around the nation to proposing annual fees for the poorest veterans to use the VA system at all, the current administration seem intent on only helping those chairborne warriors serving in the remote and dangerous halls of Congress.
Other proposals put forth by the current administration to cut cost include increasing the annual healthcare enrollment fee for retirees (what, you thought our health care was free?), charging a $30 copay for prescriptions filled on base and increasing the off base copay to $60. This has not passed yet, but the defense department, in an effort to cut drug costs (do you remember the howling out of Congress about private citizens buying American made drugs at a deep discount from Canada? How it was against the law for American citizens and local governments to do this because the American government couldn't verify the safety of American manufactured drugs sold to another country? This same government has an exemption which allows federal healthcare systems, including the military, to buy and import these same discount drugs that "aren't good enough" for the American people) military pharmacys are restricting their formularies in order to "save costs." More and more drugs are no longer being carried forcing those who need them to survive to purchase them downtown. Not surprisingly, many of these drugs are for chronic illnesses usually suffered by older veterans.
Finally, many of the illnesses suffered by veterans can be traced directly to their military service by everyone but the VA. An example are the veterans suffering from the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome." Studies by independent researchers, including a fairly recent study by Tulane University, have concluded that many of the "Gulf War Syndrome" ailments were actually caused by contaminated batches of the anthrax vaccine given to military personnel. In fact, Executive Order 13139 authorizes the administration of investigational new drugs to military personnel without their knowledge or consent, in sharp contrast to the Nuremberg Code, which calls medical experimentation on human beings without their informed consent a crime against humanity.
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From proposals to cut veterans benefits by closing many VA hospitals and clinics around the nation to proposing annual fees for the poorest veterans to use the VA system at all, the current administration seem intent on only helping those chairborne warriors serving in the remote and dangerous halls of Congress.
Other proposals put forth by the current administration to cut cost include increasing the annual healthcare enrollment fee for retirees (what, you thought our health care was free?), charging a $30 copay for prescriptions filled on base and increasing the off base copay to $60. This has not passed yet, but the defense department, in an effort to cut drug costs (do you remember the howling out of Congress about private citizens buying American made drugs at a deep discount from Canada? How it was against the law for American citizens and local governments to do this because the American government couldn't verify the safety of American manufactured drugs sold to another country? This same government has an exemption which allows federal healthcare systems, including the military, to buy and import these same discount drugs that "aren't good enough" for the American people) military pharmacys are restricting their formularies in order to "save costs." More and more drugs are no longer being carried forcing those who need them to survive to purchase them downtown. Not surprisingly, many of these drugs are for chronic illnesses usually suffered by older veterans.
Finally, many of the illnesses suffered by veterans can be traced directly to their military service by everyone but the VA. An example are the veterans suffering from the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome." Studies by independent researchers, including a fairly recent study by Tulane University, have concluded that many of the "Gulf War Syndrome" ailments were actually caused by contaminated batches of the anthrax vaccine given to military personnel. In fact, Executive Order 13139 authorizes the administration of investigational new drugs to military personnel without their knowledge or consent, in sharp contrast to the Nuremberg Code, which calls medical experimentation on human beings without their informed consent a crime against humanity.
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