[Daradon]

Yeah, there's something fishy about this title/article. Nothing against you Azure, because the Yahoo article has the inflamatory title too, but just a few sentences in, I read this as well...

'"deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases'

It seems to be more of a battle versus the insurance companies than the vets. Course one could argue that the government should be doing everything in it's power to make sure the vets don't have to deal with those sleazy companies, so I guess I get the reaction. But it doesn't really have to do with the government taking away something they had before. (at least as I'm reading it)

Now I know that the US has never done a good job with it's vets, which is very shameful since they seem to like to go to war, but not being an insurance expert and having some trouble cutting through the shock value of this article I'm not exactly sure what they are saying.

It appears the government is just trying to recoup losses from the companies themselves.