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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump confirmed yesterday that his veterans health plan is a joke
Updated by Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com Dec 29, 2016, 10:20am ESTOne of Donald Trumps major themes on the 2016 campaign trail was the need to improve the health care offerings afforded to Americas veterans. Were going to take care of our veterans like they have never been taken care of before was a fairly typical stump speech line, though he sometimes shortened it to simply a brief promise to take care of our vets.
This was typically laced with references to the spring 2014 VA scandal and devoid of references to the bipartisan reform legislation that passed in the wake of the scandal. Trump didnt particularly have a policy critique of the Obama administration and never so much as mentioned any of Hillary Clintons policy ideas on the issue the pitch he was making was, broadly, that Democrats didnt respect or care about veterans as much as he did.
Wednesday he held meetings at his Florida estate with private sector health care leaders to discuss ways to improve things, and then, as described by the New York Timess Michael Shear, briefed the press on his thinking:
Mr. Trump met with several executives of private hospital systems at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Wednesday. After the meeting, Mr. Trump called out to reporters, saying he wanted to describe his ideas for changes to the Department of Veterans Affairs, but then quickly directed one of his senior aides to describe the proposals under consideration.
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, provided no details about how the plans would work, how much they would cost, or the possibility of unintended consequences from privatizing part of the V.A.s sprawling medical system.
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, provided no details about how the plans would work, how much they would cost, or the possibility of unintended consequences from privatizing part of the V.A.s sprawling medical system.
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Donald Trump confirmed yesterday that his veterans health plan is a joke (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2016
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spanone
(135,830 posts)1. Fraud-in-chief
MFM008
(19,808 posts)2. it has been confirmed
HE is a joke.
His life is a joke.
He will make James Tyler and Millard Fillmore look good.
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)3. "i have great ideas on how to fix the va and here to tell you
what my ideas are is this guy. he's going to explain my ideas while go grab some p......."says benedict donald
ymetca
(1,182 posts)4. The objective, as always
is to stick their greedy snouts into the public trough and siphon as much as their snuffaluffagus trunks can snort.
Methinks the religious (now fully alt-) right is so desperate to fill their pews with pennies that they're willing to sell the whole apparatus to the latest traveling rainmaker...