Veterans Affairs extend Healthcare Services

VA gives veterans a year of uninterrupted private health care for 30 different medical specialties

Veterans will now be able to receive a year of uninterrupted specialty health care outside the Department of Veterans Affairs network without seeking re-authorization, the agency announced. Veterans previously had to get a new referral every three to six months.

Veterans previously had to obtain a new referral from their VA doctor every 90 to 180 days to continue receiving many specialty health services at “VA expense,” the agency said.

“This change means better continuity of care, which leads to better health outcomes,” VA Secretary Doug Collins said Monday. The policy change is effective immediately.

When veterans cannot get timely medical appointments at VA clinics or hospitals, they are referred to vendors, which are private doctors in the community.

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Executive Order to Aid Veterans

Forget Illegals – Trump Signs Order Helping Homeless Veterans

SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF ORDER:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

• Sec. 1. The VA campus in West Los Angeles will become the National Center for Warrior Independence with facilities and resources to help our veterans earn back their self-sufficiency.
• Sec. 2. Within 120 days of the date of this order, present an action plan to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, to meet these directives and restore the capacity to house up to 6,000 homeless veterans at the National Center for Warrior Independence by January 1, 2028.
• Sec. 3. Voucher Program. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, in consultation with the Secretary, use vouchers to support homeless veterans in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and around the Nation with respect to this effort.
• Sec. 4. Restore Accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Sec. 5. Provide Choices and Excellence to Veterans. The Secretary shall take steps to increase the excellence of and options for care, benefits, and services for veterans
• Sec. 6. This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

Yet the Federal Government has not always treated veterans like the heroes they are. During the previous administration, unaccountable bureaucrats treated them shamefully, failing veterans when they needed help most and betraying the taxpayers who rightfully expect better.

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Trump to build National Center for Homeless Veterans

Trump to Build Homeless Veterans Center Using Migrant Housing Funds

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish a national center for homeless veterans with redirected funds previously spent on services for illegal aliens, Fox News Digital has reported.

The president’s order directs the secretary of veterans affairs to establish the National Center for Warrior Independence on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles.

Los Angeles has approximately 3,000 homeless veterans — more than any other city in the country, and accounting for about 10% of all homeless veterans in America, according to the White House.

"The new National Center for Warrior Independence will help them and other veterans like them rebuild their lives," the White House said.

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Illegals top priority?

Challenges for VA Budget

Senate Passes $3 Billion Bill to Alleviate VA Budget Crisis

At a Glance:

• Veterans benefits payments scheduled for Oct. 1 will be un-disrupted.

• The Senate approved a bill to address a $3 billion funding shortfall for the VA.

• The approval came just before a Friday deadline to avoid benefit delays.

• VA still faces a $12 billion shortfall in its medical budget for the next fiscal year.

Now Democrats are trying to screw Veterans?

Democratic lawmaker lambastes omnibus bill as ‘harmful’ attempt to privatize veterans health care

An omnibus bill, H.R. 8371, to increase community services for disabled and aging veterans and their caretakers was attacked by the top Democrat on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee as a thinly veiled attempt to privatize health services and drain dollars from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“House Republicans have hijacked a historically bipartisan, bicameral process for veterans’ packages, to push their main priority of privatizing VA health care,” Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said about the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act.

Sponsored by Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., a member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, the bill has 21 Republican co-sponsors. No Democrats have signed onto the bill.

But Takano said the scope of the new legislation needs to be scaled back or it will lead to further erosion of support for traditional VA programs.

The bill has received support from veterans organizations, including the Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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The bill

What Trump will do for our Veterans

This video follows up with an advertisement for Colonial Metals Group for a minute and goes back to the meat of the video.

TRUMP 2024

Biden handouts to Illegal Aliens while Homeless Vets suffer

Border Vets laying Razor Wire in California

Border Vets

Border vets’ take it upon themselves to seal off gaps in the wall

BOULEVARD, Calif. (Border Report) — Members of a group calling themselves the “Border Vets” felt it was their duty to spend part of their afternoon in the mountains east of San Diego pounding metal stakes into rocks and stringing razor wire.

They were trying to seal a gap in the border barrier where migrants have been entering the U.S. in recent months.

“It’s really serious for everybody here that we protect our nation. The holes that we can find (in the border wall), we’re going to go ahead and get the razor wire and do our best to defend our country,” said Kate Monroe, a retired Marine.

“Whoever it is you’re waiting to do this for you, they’re not coming. It’s going to be people like us, people like America’s veterans.”

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Harley Davidson, a company with a heart

Harley Davidson Refused Military Wife’s Late Payment…Then She Opened This Letter!

Prior to his being deployed overseas, Christopher Walters rented out a space to keep his motorcycle at Reiman’s Harley-Davidson.

While he was away, his wife Jaime, understandably, had trouble staying on top of the rental payments. With 2 youngsters to care for, she was a bit overwhelmed with all the financial obligations she encountered with Christopher deployed.

She received an over-due letter from the company. She explained why the contracted payment was overdue and sent in a check. And when Dennis read her explanation, he declined to take her money

This is a heartfelt story for Memorial day. Enjoy.

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Veterans Day Celebration in Lake Worth Beach

Liberals calling the POW/MIA flag "racist"

The Flag Liberals Are Calling Racist Now

Everything is "racist" to liberals

First it was the Confederate flag. Liberals say it’s racist. Now they are after a new target, the POW/MIA flag! Just a thought, but I feel like I’m speaking for most Americans… THAT FLAG STAYS FLYING OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!

This is disrespectful to our missing veterans, as well as their families. That flag should never be taken down. People are still missing those they love BUT nonetheless liberals say it’s racist.

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Jon Stewart having a hissy fit

Comedians and activists criticise the 42 Republicans and 1 Democrat for blocking a bill to ban burn pits.

It seems that Jon Stewart, who was not a veteran, jumped to a conclusion without knowing all of the facts as the PACT Act "would enable $400 billion over the next 10 years in spending completely unrelated to veterans."

Senator Pat Toomey called the PACT Act’s promised spending of $400 billion ‘completely unrelated to veterans.’ He also called the assigned amount “a budget gimmick.”

“As written, the legislation would not just help America’s veterans as designed. It could also allow Democrats to effectively spend the same money twice and enable hundreds of billions in new, unrelated spending on the discretionary side of the federal budget,” McConnell said on Thursday.

Habitat for Humanity to help veterans in Lake Worth Beach

Veterans can now apply for Lake Worth Beach home from Habitat for Humanity

Florida has the third-largest veteran population in the nation, according to the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs. More than 76,000 veterans are living in Palm Beach County.

Because of this, Habitat wants to help veterans by putting a roof over their heads.

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5 Young Men Stare At Veteran, When They Approach Him, the Restaurant Goes Silent

5 Young Men Repeatedly Interrupt Elderly Veteran's Dinner With Wife, End Up Leaving Him In Tears

Read about it... A nice story for a change.

Brian Mast on Turkey Tax, Mandates, Veterans and More

This morning at the Lake Worth beach

Veterans Day Parade Lake Worth Beach

Afghan Interpreter begged Biden to save him

but he was left behind!

U.S. Vets Smuggle Afghan Interpreter Who Helped Save Joe Biden Out Of Afghanistan

An Afghan interpreter who helped save President Joe Biden and two other U.S. lawmakers in 2008 has escaped Afghanistan with the aid of volunteers working to evacuate stranded Americans and U.S. allies from the country.

Aman Khalili and his family escaped from Afghanistan over the border to Pakistan last week, Khalili told The Wall Street Journal. After hiding from the Taliban for weeks under the care of various volunteer organizations, a group of military veterans smuggled the former U.S. interpreter and his family through numerous Taliban checkpoints and out of Afghanistan.

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The Scammer

Meet the man at the center of a shadowy multimillion-dollar ‘scam PAC’ network

Normally I would never print anything from Salon but this is an exception.

A super PAC that claims to advocate for wounded veterans raised millions of dollars this year, but spent only $18,000 of it on political activity. The rest of the money was spun off to administrative and marketing services, including to three companies belonging to one person — a former long-shot Democratic congressional candidate, self-published author, certified nutrition-label reader and serial hustler in East Tennessee named Alan Bohms.

The organization, called American Wounded Veterans PAC, bears hallmarks of what campaign finance watchdogs call a “scam PAC” — a for-profit fundraising vehicle that professes to advocate for a cause but makes no clear promise on how it will spend the money raised, and in reality intends to keep most of it, or pay it out to affiliated contractors.

I continue to give to Veteran causes and had to check if I had given to this one.

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