http://www.healthcare-now.org/study-over-2200-us-veterans-died-in-2008-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance/ Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:42:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.healthcare-now.org/study-over-2200-us-veterans-died-in-2008-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-5395 Dana Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:58:12 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2958#comment-5395 @John, the article addresses issues of eligibility. A greater issue IME is the issue of access. The VA does not provide health insurance, it provides care at its clinics and hospitals, which may be hundreds of miles from a veteran's home. @John, the article addresses issues of eligibility. A greater issue IME is the issue of access. The VA does not provide health insurance, it provides care at its clinics and hospitals, which may be hundreds of miles from a veteran’s home.

]]> http://www.healthcare-now.org/study-over-2200-us-veterans-died-in-2008-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-5389 Rebecca Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:59 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2958#comment-5389 As stated above in this article..."While most veterans are eligible to receive care from the Veterans Administration, those who were not injured in combat and whose income is above a certain threshold are often ineligible." As a veteran, you "used" to be able to receive medical care from the VA even if you did not meet their low-income requirements, all you had to do was pay a minimal co-pay; however, Secretary Shinseki has recently (believe it was in June or July of this year)suspended that option. Now you MUST income qualify to receive medical care, if you do not have a service related disabilty/injury.Unfortunately, our nation is not caring for our veterans to the capacity that it should be. As stated above in this article…”While most veterans are eligible to receive care from the Veterans Administration, those who were not injured in combat and whose income is above a certain threshold are often ineligible.” As a veteran, you “used” to be able to receive medical care from the VA even if you did not meet their low-income requirements, all you had to do was pay a minimal co-pay; however, Secretary Shinseki has recently (believe it was in June or July of this year)suspended that option. Now you MUST income qualify to receive medical care, if you do not have a service related disabilty/injury.Unfortunately, our nation is not caring for our veterans to the capacity that it should be.

]]> http://www.healthcare-now.org/study-over-2200-us-veterans-died-in-2008-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-5338 John Barker Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:42:40 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2958#comment-5338 I'm missing something. Isn't health care a benefit of being a veteran? I’m missing something. Isn’t health care a benefit of being a veteran?

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