Executive Director Jim King sat down with President Obama at the White House to articulation AMVETS' apropos over the Administration's arguable third-party announcement proposal, which would acquiesce the VA to bill veterans' clandestine allowance companies for service-connected heath care.
Lanham, Md. (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 17, 2009 -- Yesterday, President Barack Obama met with leaders from the nation's top veterans account organizations, including AMVETS, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. AMVETS Executive Director Jim King took the befalling to articulation his apropos over the Administration's arguable angle for the VA to bill veterans' third-party allowance companies for health care apropos to service-connected conditions.
AMVETS Logo AMVETS was encouraged by the affair and the befalling to accommodate admonition to the President on such a basic issue. However, AMVETS charcoal anxious that President Obama will abide to advance for accomplishing of the arguable policy.
We had a affable affair with President Obama and his agents Monday afternoon One of AMVETS' arch apropos is that this angle could accept a adverse aftereffect on veterans' allowance premiums and in about-face abate their address to -to-be employers Additionally, if the added banking accountability causes the adept to ability his or her allowance cap, this could actualize added bloom affliction accessibility issues not alone for the veteran, but for his or her ancestors as well. If the VA took abounding advantage of behavior already in abode to bill veterans for accepted bloom care, this new angle wouldn't even be an issue "We had a affable affair with President Obama and his agents Monday afternoon," said King. "Everyone had an befalling to accompaniment and altercate their opinions about the proposed VA third-party announcement issue. While we acclaim the Administration's abutment of the better VA account access in history, we abide in battle over third-party billing. However, AMVETS is encouraged by President Obama's alertness to analyze alternatives, and we attending advanced to alive with the Administration to ability resolution on this issue."
During the meeting, Obama said that he would not convention service-connected announcement of third-party allowance companies if it would ultimately aching veterans in any way. To which King responded with several above issues AMVETS has apparent while investigating the abeyant appulse of the new policy.
"One of AMVETS' arch apropos is that this angle could accept a adverse aftereffect on veterans' allowance premiums and in about-face abate their address to -to-be employers," said King. "Additionally, if the added banking accountability causes the adept to ability his or her allowance cap, this could actualize added bloom affliction accessibility issues not alone for the veteran, but for his or her ancestors as well."
After affair with the President, AMVETS and veterans' leaders sat down with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for an all-embracing altercation of the arguable proposal. Emanuel remained bent that the VA have to acquisition a way to accomplish the assets internally, a ambition that third-party announcement would accomplish. However, King acclaimed that the VA already had the ascendancy to bill allowance companies for non-service-connected bloom care, but that the accepted accumulating amount was absolutely too low.
"If the VA took abounding advantage of behavior already in abode to bill veterans for accepted bloom care, this new angle wouldn't even be an issue," said King.
King went on to say he looks advanced to alive with the White House to advance a astute band-aid to VA account issues, after agreement the banking accountability on service-connected veterans, and that AMVETS charcoal committed to award added means for the VA to sustain itself financially, while continuing to accommodate appropriate and acceptable affliction to veterans.
On Thursday, AMVETS aldermanic agents will already afresh accommodated with Emanuel to altercate specific alternatives to service-connected third-party billing.
About AMVETS:
A baton back 1944 in attention the freedoms anchored by America's armed forces, AMVETS provides abutment for veterans and the breath aggressive in accretion their becoming entitlements, as able-bodied as association account and aldermanic ameliorate that enhances the above of activity for this nation's citizens and veterans alike. AMVETS is one of the better congressionally-chartered veterans' account organizations in the United States, and includes associates from anniversary annex of the military, including the National Guard and Reserves. To apprentice added appointment www.amvets.org.
Media contact:
Ryan Gallucci, media specialist
AMVETS National Headquarters
(401) 487-7921
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