the point you are missing is this coverage was not for combatwow, talk about not getting the pointNobody got screwed. That's the point. You guys keep saying somebody got screwed. Nothing happened.
The whole point, and Obama made it himself, was that the insurance companies were getting a free ride from vets and the VA. That was the whole thing. The ONLY way vets would have been screwed was by their INSURANCE companies. So, to keep insurance companies from screwing vets, the matter was dropped.
those insurance companies would not have been able to cover those costs
it would have forced them to drop any coverage for anyone connected to the military
you really have no business sense, do you?
Like I said, the insurance companies would have screwed the vets if they actually had to pay the medical bills of the people that paid them to do so.
And it remains a free ride for the insurance companies now. I sure would like to offer insurance to peole who already have health care from the VA. That's a pretty damn neat racket.
and i bet most of these vets were national guard or reserves
that had coverage from their full time jobs