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A letter that U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján signed onto with 67 other members of Congress appears to have helped move the White House to quash a controversial veterans’ health care proposal.
After a meeting yesterday with leaders of the national veterans’ service organizations, the White House announced that it would not move forward with the measure, which would have required veterans to use their private health insurance plans to pay for medical care for service-related injuries.
“America’s soldiers and their families sacrifice for our country every day,” Luján said in a statement today. “We have a responsibility to provide them with the benefits they have earned and deserve, especially when they are injured in combat.”
Luján did praise parts of President Obama’s budget. “President Obama has built a budget that supports veterans by increasing funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs and expanding employment opportunities for veterans,” Luján said. “By removing the proposal to bill veterans’ private health insurers for service-related injuries, he has signaled a firm commitment to the brave men and women who have served our nation.”
The letter, penned by U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye, D-Va., said, “We do not give our veterans health care — they earn it — and it would be unacceptable for the VA to ask our veterans to pay for the treatment of injuries received while serving our nation in uniform.”
