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pinboy3niner

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8. Every vet who enrolls in VA health care (or who is rejected) knows about priorities

Reply to global1 (Reply #1)

Fri May 30, 2014, 10:17 PM

May 2014

They notify you of your priority assignment and feature it prominently on your VA ID card.

When rules were adopted making more veterans ineligible for VA health care, that was reported by mainstream media at the time. It just didn't get much traction.

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Congress puts Veterans in eight different priority groups to receive V.A. health care. [View all] pwb May 2014 OP

Why Haven't We Heard About These Priority Groups Before?.... global1 May 2014 #1

Congress did create the priority groups to save money. pwb May 2014 #5

Every vet who enrolls in VA health care (or who is rejected) knows about priorities pinboy3niner May 2014 #8

Not a big fan flashbang May 2014 #2

What? pwb May 2014 #4

"Priority Groups". Kinda sounds like yer basic "Death Panel" right there... pnwest May 2014 #3

I'm a member of 3 veterans' organizations. TxVietVet May 2014 #6

Goofy Old Pricks call veterans expensive and want a $600B tax cuts for their bribers. TxVietVet May 2014 #7