GOP candidates eye vouchers for veterans

[KamaAina]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-candidates-eye-vouchers-veterans

On Veterans’ Day 2011, then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in South Carolina, visiting with roughly a dozen veterans, and raised the prospect of privatizing VA care.

“Sometimes you wonder,” the Republican said, “would there be some way to introduce some private sector competition, somebody else that could come in and say, you know each soldier gets X thousand dollars attributed to them and then they can choose whether they want to go on the government system or the private system and then it follows them.”

Almost immediately, a spokesperson for Veterans Of Foreign Wars announced its opposition to the idea: “The VFW doesn’t support privatization of veterans health care.” That was that – Romney backpedaled soon after, saying he was just kicking around a hypothetical scenario he didn’t intend to pursue.

Four years later, however, the idea is apparently increasingly popular among the new crop of Republican presidential candidates.

Why do they hate America so much??

[hobbit709]

1. They can take that voucher idea, fold it until it's all sharp corners and put it you know where

[Rex]

2. So he took the idea of privatizing social security (VA) and flung it at vets!?

If ONLY we had a media that kept this in the news! What a total scumbag.