From John Kerry's campaign website:
"The Bush Administration chronically under-funds VA health care."
Truth or lies???
LIE!
Excerpt from the Secretary of Veteran Affairs comments:
"President Bush will ask Congress to provide my department, the VA, with $67.7 billion in budget authority for fiscal year 2005, an increase in budget authority of $5.6 billion over the current fiscal year, 2004. This budget will build on and solidify the dramatic increase in access to health care veterans have enjoyed over the past three years, as well as allow us to continue improving benefits delivery. The president asked for $32.1 billion in VA discretionary funding, mostly for VA health care. Our health care resources would increase 4.1 percent over this year and build on three years of unprecedented growth totaling more than 40 percent for health care alone. As a result, today we provide quality medical care to a million more veterans than we did in 2001. I thank the president and members of Congress for making it possible for VA's health care providers to achieve this remarkable expansion in service, and I certainly thank VA health care professionals for their very hard work. "
More to come.......
"The Bush Administration chronically under-funds VA health care."
Truth or lies???
LIE!
Excerpt from the Secretary of Veteran Affairs comments:
"President Bush will ask Congress to provide my department, the VA, with $67.7 billion in budget authority for fiscal year 2005, an increase in budget authority of $5.6 billion over the current fiscal year, 2004. This budget will build on and solidify the dramatic increase in access to health care veterans have enjoyed over the past three years, as well as allow us to continue improving benefits delivery. The president asked for $32.1 billion in VA discretionary funding, mostly for VA health care. Our health care resources would increase 4.1 percent over this year and build on three years of unprecedented growth totaling more than 40 percent for health care alone. As a result, today we provide quality medical care to a million more veterans than we did in 2001. I thank the president and members of Congress for making it possible for VA's health care providers to achieve this remarkable expansion in service, and I certainly thank VA health care professionals for their very hard work. "
More to come.......