Your opinion: VA benefit cuts...OK or Not OK?...Take the Poll

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  1. Your opinion: VA benefit cuts...OK or Not OK?...Take the Poll

    • 4
      I'm prior service
    • 1
      I'm Not prior service
    • 9
      I''m Not prior service, BUT have/had prior service family members
    • 2
      I'm currently serving
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      It is OK to cut VA benefits, in my opinion
    • 13
      It is Not OK to cut VA benefits, in my opinion

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Take the poll....see how our opinions stack up.

Myself: prior service, Army, exited 1985, 6 years, MOS 91C30/E-6

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While it is not ok to cut bebefits, it is permissable, and expected that the VA use their money more wisely.

Does that mean some people will not receive the care they believe they deserve. Of course it does. But with the number of service connected diabled vets, it is the duty of the VA to care for them first. Non-service connected, and people who feel they deserve free health care because they did their few years of active duty, have to realize that they are at the bottom of the pile. And very little money will trickle down there.

So, has there been a cut in the VA budget?

I have been out of the loop, has there been an actual cut. Or just a restructuring of benefits?

This is all I could find. I could not find anything reputable about the upcoming budget. A lot of chest beating, and accusations, but nothing solid. But, I didn't spend a long time looking either.

http://www.factcheck.org/article144.html

bob

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I agree with Bob . . .. .

steph

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

I am:

Prior service, 10years

Now, a spouse of active duty military.

In this "land of milk and honey" and "pork", It is NEVER "ok" to me to cut benefits to veterans who are disabled and/or have lost limbs in line of duty. They stepped up to the plate, so you and I did not have to. We need to keep our promises to them, now ---and step up to the plate ourselves by showing them our thanks in a way that counts most. That would be by giving them what is fair and due them. End of story as far as I am concerned.

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Our fathers and mothers fought and died to preserve our way of life. We should fight to give them a better quality of life.

JMTOT,

Mike

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Prior service, US Navy. No, I don't believe it is okay to cut VA benefits. As an ER case manager - I desperately try to hook up my homeless VA patients with care, only to be told that our local VA clinic is not taking ANY new patients and if they need/want to utilize the VA system, they must travel over 150 miles away to the VA hospital. Very frustrating when there is much more need that isn't being met.

My husband (retired Air Force) and myself are registered with the VA system, but we make way too much money to receive care there. That is okay by us because we are still in the workforce. However, when we get older we may need to get care there.

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