{"id":378,"date":"2010-10-08T22:17:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T03:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=378"},"modified":"2010-10-08T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T03:17:36","slug":"oh-no-they-did-not-just-go-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/oh-no-they-did-not-just-go-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No, They Did Not Just Go There&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And while Democrats have been reluctant to campaign on their sweeping health care overhaul, which will eventually provide millions in government subsidies, they&#8217;ve been more eager to slam any Republican as heartless and irresponsible for proposing plans to &#8220;privatize&#8221; the veterans health system &#8212; if not the Department of Veterans Affairs altogether.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/10\/07\/republicans-accused-wanting-privatize-veterans-health-care\/\">Dems Attack GOP&#8217;s Proposals for Private-Sector Health Care for Veterans &#8211; FoxNews.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, first of all, The Dems are distorting the GOP ideas on this.\u00a0 Right now there is such a backlog in the VA Hospital System, it&#8217;s almost sick.\u00a0 The GOP ideas would let Vets get their care in the private system if they so desire or need.\u00a0 VA care would still be available to the Vets, but they would have the option of getting vouchers to go elsewhere if they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Second&#8230;\u00a0 Do they really want to play this card? Really?\u00a0 I mean&#8230; Remember back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2009<\/a> when it was President Obama who actually wanted to force Vets to pay for their own health care?\u00a0 Remember this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the  Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make  veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private  insurance. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/03\/10\/veterans.health.insurance\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Umm&#8230;\u00a0 so&#8230;. who is it that wants to take away our veterans&#8217; health care??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And while Democrats have been reluctant to campaign on their sweeping health care overhaul, which will eventually provide millions in government subsidies, they&#8217;ve been more eager to slam any Republican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-takeovers","category-obamacare","category-war-on-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}