LTC Private RallyPoint Member452339<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What are you thoughts on this?<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/obama-wants-to-strip-funding-from-veterans-medical-choice-program/?intcmp=latestnews">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/obama-wants-to-strip-funding-from-veterans-medical-choice-program/?intcmp=latestnews</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<a target="blank" href="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</a>
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">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.</p>
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President Obama's budget proposal strips the funding from veterans' medical choice program2015-02-03T12:39:19-05:00LTC Private RallyPoint Member452339<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What are you thoughts on this?<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/obama-wants-to-strip-funding-from-veterans-medical-choice-program/?intcmp=latestnews">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/03/obama-wants-to-strip-funding-from-veterans-medical-choice-program/?intcmp=latestnews</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<a target="blank" href="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</a>
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">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.</p>
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President Obama's budget proposal strips the funding from veterans' medical choice program2015-02-03T12:39:19-05:002015-02-03T12:39:19-05:00CW5 Private RallyPoint Member452907<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My thoughts, <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="209691" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/209691-12a-engineer-officer-pacom-hq-pacom">LTC Private RallyPoint Member</a>, are that this is another example of something good that President Obama signed into law previously and now wants to cut.<br /><br />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 CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 3 at 2015 6:02 PM2015-02-03T18:02:39-05:002015-02-03T18:02:39-05:00CW3 Kevin Storm727058<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>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 CW3 Kevin Storm made Jun 5 at 2015 8:18 PM2015-06-05T20:18:09-04:002015-06-05T20:18:09-04:00Capt Andrew Pratt2140588<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>.Response by Capt Andrew Pratt made Dec 7 at 2016 2:21 PM2016-12-07T14:21:10-05:002016-12-07T14:21:10-05:002015-02-03T12:39:19-05:00