2020/01/12 · 11:06
Selling Troops and a veteran's legs repossessed. How great can we get.
There is a lot to this story but it boils down to one thing, disrespect and unpatriotic.
The legs were returned...unadjusted and unuseable.
A decorated military veteran who served in Vietnam and Iraq has claimed that his prosthetic legs were taken away after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would not cover the cost.
Jerry Holliman, 69, told the Clarion Ledger that he was in his room at the Veterans Home in Collins, Mississippi just a couple days before Christmas when a man walked in and took away his prosthetic limbs.
According to Holliman, the VA said it would not cover the cost of the limbs, while Medicare said there'd be a copay required.
Since the vet did not obtain his legs from the VA….there was a big hassle over paying for them but maybe the vet got tired of waiting and maybe the VA said they would pay and it would take a congressperson to get them to do so. Who knows? Common sense says no vet should have their legs taken away twice. Once on the battlefield and another time in a hospital.
I don’t think the majority of vet supporters know this. They believe the BS or it doesn’t register with his word salad of what he is saying. Troops really should know this.
I get tired of explaining how Trump did not start the Choice program but Obama did.
Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
Full title To improve the access of veterans to medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Introduced in 113th United States Congress
Introduced on October 2, 2013.
Trump said he passed a private-sector health care program, Veterans Choice, after failed attempts by past presidents for the last “45 years.
” That’s not true.
The Choice program, which allows veterans to see doctors outside the government-run VA system at taxpayer expense, was first passed in 2014 under President Barack Obama.
Trump’s VA secretary, Robert Wilkie, also is distorting the facts.
Faulting previous “bad leadership” at VA, Wilkie suggested it was his own efforts that improved waiting times at VA medical centers and brought new offerings of same-day mental health service. The problem:
The study cited by Wilkie on wait times covers the period from 2014 to 2017, before Wilkie took the helm as VA secretary.
Same-day mental health services at VA were started during the Obama administration
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