Timothy McSweeney's Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush (via sdemory)
DAY 22:
In speeches to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion in August of '01, Bush promised reforms and improvements to health care benefits for veterans.
However, in January '03, the Bush administration's Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it would reduce access to its health care system in order to block over 150,000 veterans from enrolling in that fiscal year, due to a backlog of vets still waiting to receive treatment.
In March '03, Bush's VA budget was passed. It included raised charges for primary care and drug prescription co-payments, raised enrollment fees -- which had never before existed in veteran's health care -- and complete blockage of care for what the VA considers lower priority vets.
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