03-24-2009, 09:56 PM
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The Dreadnoks 
Join Date: September 27, 2001
Location: Orlando, FL
Age: 61
Posts: 3,608
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Obama Drops Vet Insurance Plan
This is a start to move in the correct direction, hopefully he can learn, and carry forward.
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President Obama won style points from veterans' service organizations this week even as he was forced, under heavy fire, to withdraw his plan to have the Department of Veterans Affairs bill veterans' health insurance for the cost to VA of treating service-connected medical conditions.
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"I cannot remember -- and I've been doing [veterans' advocacy work] for 35 years -- any sitting president ever inviting us over and sitting down with us to talk about a policy-related issue," Gorman said. "So we were very grateful for that. It showed us a lot."
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http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,187179,00.html
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