(Sen Hillary)Clinton Spearheading Effort to Stop Closing of VA Hospitals

[papau]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAA8V9CWMD.html

Nov 11, 2003
(Sen Hillary)Clinton Spearheading Effort to Stop Closing of VA Hospitals By Suzanne Gamboa Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is leading an effort to stop the Department of Veterans Affairs from closing underused and outdated hospitals, including one in her state.

Clinton and a group of both other Democratic and Republican senators want to slow down a VA plan to shift the agency's health care focus to outpatient facilities and shutter seven hospitals, including one in Canandaigua, N.Y.

The senators, calling for more hearings, say VA planners have not spent enough time studying veterans' long-term care and mental health needs or weighing the impact on rural veterans.

"Veterans' health care is too important an issue to require an adherence to artificial deadlines and hasty recommendations," Clinton said in a letter to Senate colleagues. <snip>

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a co-sponsor, said the VA's restructuring proposal "appears to be an effort to simply close facilities." <snip>

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAA8V9CWMD.html

[UrbScotty]

1. Go Hillary! (nt)

[wicket]

2. God bless her!

nt

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. hahahah

how are the Freepers going to counter this one? ayhahhahaha. How do you explain to your idiotic readers that a Marxist-Satanic-Priestess is trying to halt Bush's closing of veteran hospitals?

[bobbieinok]

4. You clearly do not understand.

Whatever W does is correct because he has been chosen by god to lead the country at this time.

All opposition is indeed satanic.

[54anickel]

5. They'll find a way

It will be something that encompasses the idea of privatization, free market, providing state-of-the-art facilities. The usual BS

[FreedomSpirit]

6. Thank you Senator Clinton

This doesn't forgive your vote to let Monkey Boy have his war, but it shows that your heart is in the right place when it comes to taking care of veterans. Rural areas need their VA facilities just as much as cities do.

It just blows me away what blatant evil hypocrites these Bushies are. I wonder how the karma they are creating for themselves is going to come back at them.

Anyway, thanks to Hillary for taking up the cause and standing up for veterans. It speaks well of her.

[Drifter]

7. Yep, this one is near by ...

Canandagia is about 30 minutes from Rochester.

The news of this hospital closing has been around for months.

I sure hope there is something she can do.

Cheers
Drifter

[WindRavenX]

8. GO GIRL!!

She kicks ass!!
And people say Democrats don't care about Vets..

[SideshowScott]

9. No No No Democrats HATE the military...Right?

One of the greatest republican lies EVER is that the democrats are anti-military..Im getting pretty sick of the republican tatic were you lie about the dems and do exactly what you accuse them of

[CBHagman]

10. Democrats have been putting a big emphasis on veterans.

Will the press cover this much or just yawn and go on to the latest Bush photo op?

[yankeedem]

11. Anyone here have privledges at freeperville

Post the article, but exchange Bill Frist or Zell Miller or Tom Delay for Hillary. Watch them froth at the mouth about unpatriotic, veteran hating LIEberals and then pull the switch. "Oh, sorry, I must have heard it wrong, it was Hillary". Their heads will spin back so heard they will snap their necks.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. I LIKE those odds!

"Excellent!"
--C. Montgomery Burns

--bkl