Knee Deep in the Hooah!

I have been suspicious all along that this Administration likes to use the grape vine and rumors to test the waters of how asinine policies will go over with a segment of the population. The Dover decision was a “rumor” and not something he was really considering for a few weeks before he lifted the ban and threw a bone to his pets in the MSM.

Obama Drops Controversial Health Care Plan for Wounded Veterans

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FOX News

President Obama will not advance a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service.

President Obama, after an uproar by veterans groups, has scrapped a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service.

“In considering the third-party billing issue, the administration was seeking to maximize the resources available for veterans,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday in a written statement. “However, the president listened to concerns raised by the [veteran service organizations] that this might, under certain circumstances, affect veterans’ and their families’ ability to access health care.

“Therefore, the president has instructed that its consideration be dropped,” Gibbs said.

Obama met with 11 veterans service organizations on Monday and explained his plan to increase funding for Veterans Affairs by $25 billion over five years and bring more than 500,000 eligible veterans of modest income into the VA health care system by 2013.

But the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans group, said the president’s plan would have increased premiums, made insurance unaffordable for veterans and imposed a massive hardship on military families. It could have also prevented small businesses from hiring veterans who have large health care needs, the group said.

The American Legion applauded Obama’s decision to drop the plan on Wednesday.