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VA Official Warns GOP Trying To Ration Health Care For Vets

Republicans are trying to ration health care for military veterans, the top official at the Veteran’s Administration warns.

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Republicans are trying to ration health care for military veterans, the top official at the Veteran’s Administration warns.

“Proposed amendments by Republican senators to a bill aimed at aiding veterans exposed to toxic burn pits would results in “rationing of care for vets,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said on Sunday.

“I can’t in good conscience do that, because the outcome of that will be rationing of care for vets, which is something I just can’t sign up for,” McDonough told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) appeared on the show earlier Sunday morning to explain Republican opposition to the bill, which was blocked last week when it fell five votes short of the tally needed to bypass the filibuster.” [READ MORE]

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