President Obama's budget proposal strips the funding from veterans' medical choice program

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:39:19 -0500

What are you thoughts on this?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/obama-wants-to-strip-funding-from-veterans-medical-choice-program/?intcmp=latestnews

Obama wants to strip funding from veterans' medical choice program

President Obama’s 2016 budget blueprint proposes rolling back a program that gives veterans the right to receive faster care outside of the long waitlists at the troubled Veterans Affairs medical system.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 3 at 2015 6:02 PM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:02:39 -0500

My thoughts, LTC Private RallyPoint Member, are that this is another example of something good that President Obama signed into law previously and now wants to cut.

That's fine though, because I don't think that portion of the budget will make it through Congress, especially if Senator McCain (original sponsor of the idea) has anything to say about it.

Response by CW3 Kevin Storm made Jun 5 at 2015 8:18 PM

CW3 Kevin Storm — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 20:18:09 -0400

Veterans are not using it, the money was stripped from the VA budget so it has an effect on the VA. The program while well intended isn't being used as expected.

Response by Capt Andrew Pratt made Dec 7 at 2016 2:21 PM

Capt Andrew Pratt — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:21:10 -0500