Somebody sounds scared.

The Repubs. just sat on their fat asses collecting a pay check and doing nothing for all those years. (which by the way, if I ever do go into politics, is why I'm going Republican. Cause you fools will actually pay me to do nothing.)

The income requirements are met by most I would guess.

Eligibility Assessment Procedures

Public Law 99-272, The Veterans Health Care Amendment of 1986, and Public Law 101-508, The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, established eligibility assessment procedures, based on income levels, for determining whether or not certain veterans who have no other special eligibility, are eligible for cost-fee medical care. These income levels will be adjusted on January 1 of each year by the percentage that VA pension benefits are increased.

Veterans who are not subject to the eligibility income assessment (Means Test) are as follows:

Service-connected (compensable) veterans

Former prisoners of war

Veterans awarded the Purple Heart

Veterans discharged for a disability incurred or aggravated in line of duty.

Veterans who were exposed to herbicides while serving in Vietnam, to ionizing radiation during atmospheric testing and in the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or exposed to an environmental hazard while serving in the Gulf War and need treatment for a condition that might be related to such exposures.

Veterans receiving a VA pension.

Veterans of the Mexican border period or World War I.

Veterans eligible for Medicaid.



The eligibility income assessment, which follows, applies to all other veterans without special eligibility regardless of age:

Your hospital care, medical services and nursing home care (when provided) are cost-free if:

You are not subject to the eligibility income assessment (as listed above):
or,

You are a nonservice-connected veteran or 0% non compensable service-connected veteran seeking care for a non service-connected disability and your combined household income is $22,887 or less and your income plus net worth is less than $50,000, if single with no dependents: or your combined household income is $27,468 or less and your income plus net worth is less than $50,000 if married, or single with one dependent (add $1,532) to the income level for each additional dependent).

Your hospital care, medical service and nursing home care (when provided) will require your agreement to pay VA a deductible (also referred to as co-payment) amount for that care equal to what you would have to pay under Medicare, as adjusted annually, if,

Your combined household income is $22,888 or above if single with no dependents or $27,469 or above if married or single with one dependent, plus $1,532 for each additional dependent.

If you are required to pay a deductible for your medical care, you will be charged a copayment, for which you will be personally responsible, as follows:

A co-payment equal to the Medicare deductible, currently $776 for the first 90 days of hospital care during any 365-day period. (In addition to this co-payment, you will be charged a fee of $10 per day for inpatient hospital care.)

For each additional 90 days of hospital care, you will pay half the Medicare deductible plus the additional charge of $10 per day.

For each 90 days of nursing home care, you will pay the full Medicare deductible. (In addition to this co-payment, you will be charged a fee of $5 per day for nursing home care.)

A co-payment of $50.80 will be charged for each outpatient visit.

NOTE: The income assessment level and co-payments rates are adjusted annually.

How you claim that terror is not defeated by terror, which militray conflict/s are you aware of where this was the case?.

I think you have it backwards. If CA seceded, we'd take over Mexico. You know those bitter Christian clingers with a Bible in one hand and a six shooter in the other, are fierce.

Dr. Woolander has her own National Health Program that she is pimping.

What are you talking about? Veterans automatically qualify for free or low cost health benefits. All they have to do is enroll. Are you asking us to do their paperwork for them?

On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under the age of sixty-five died in 2008 because they were uninsured. We speak to the report’s co-author, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.

hey are tired of having to choose between socialism and socialism light. It's like a game of two card monte, whichever card you pick, you lose.

We need a choice between conservatives and originalists who support a constitutional republic, not bailout factory.

That is very authoritative view that has no Constitutional basis.

States entered into the Union freely and they should be able to vote themselves out.

50% of Americans are now being sustained by the other 50%.

Dear Red States:

If you manage to steal this election too we've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California , Hawaii , Oregon , Washington , Minnesota , Wisconsin , Michigan , Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly:

You get Texas , Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get the Statue of Liberty.
You get Dollywood.

We get Intel and Microsoft.
You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard.
You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85% of America 's venture capital and entrepreneurs.
You get Alabama .

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families.
You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once.


With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University...

We get Hollywood and Yosemite , thank you.

Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy **stards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too.

You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico

Peace out,
Blue States

Must be a remake out or something cause back in the 70's when I saw the original "Soylent Green" it was "each other".

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,but most stupid people are conservatives."
John Stuart Mill
(1806 - 1873)

What part did deregulation play in the present current economic condition of our country?

What do you think of his statement?

Praising a man who killed 70 million people is disgusting.

I've known liberals of all religious persuasion and conservatives of all religious persuasions. Religion and race seem to have nothing to do with it. It's utterly unpredictable. My best friend is the most die hard conservative atheist Jew you could ever hope to meet. Another friend is a borderline communist from a staunch Mormon family. Try to make sense of that. I don't even try. I'm just friends with everybody. :D

Well i just want to say that evolution also known as darwins theory of evolution is in fact just a theory and there is nothing conclusive to prove otherwise I just happened to hear some time ago on the news (radio) and also i read in the paper local lethbridge paper that the existing "missing link" which existed in california and was named lucy was recanted as she was merely an ape nothing more! And you need to have a missing link to prove evolution and as of today none exists so therefore it remains a theory!

So what percentage of socialist countries don't engage in wealth redistribution

Which socilaist political parties are against wealth redistribution?

So what's so wrong about socialism?


Lets say I have three cows...my neighbor only has one cow...A socialist government will take a cow from me that I paid for,fed and raised and give it to my neighbor. This way we both have two cows...equality...

SOCIALISM ...bad.......umkay!

Maybe we'll be eating soylent green in the not too distant future?

Secondly, the term "rightwing dictator" is an oxymoron. In countries with dictators the dictator is the government.... so if all industry is controlled by the dictator then it is government controlled. It has been the work of spin doctors to make people believe that government controlled industry is something to be considered rightwing.

Main Entry: dic·ta·tor
Pronunciation: \ˈdik-ˌtā-tər, dik-ˈ\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, from dictare
Date: 14th century

1 a : a person granted absolute emergency power; especially : one appointed by the senate of ancient Rome b : one holding complete autocratic control c : one ruling absolutely and often oppressively
2 : one that dictates

Now, how about the groups that intentionally show up to cause mayhem and violence, because they say that is the only way that they can get their point across?

What happened after the cops were no longer there?

The cop actually pushed some of the "protestors"?????? A crime against humanity, I say!

I always wonder at the hostility from so many on the left for older people.

If I were to go solar power (just to cover the electricity I already use) it would cost 20 to 30K. If I were to have an electric car my electricity consumption would probably be fifty times what it is now (the ammount of electricity used to power a 60 hp motor even for 5 hours a week is phenonomal compared to a refrigerator or microwave).

I am assuming that you are trying to tell me that since we don't have the right to tell other nations what kind of govt. they must have, then I am CERTAIN, that you would say the same thing to the communist chinese, correct?

The answer is in the question, because it can never work.

Thanks for the compliment!

Further, and this is a pre-emptive strike: Remember, it was the communist chinese that wanted to turn viet nam communist, THAT was why we were there in the first place. Sort of how we stopped the communists in Korea

I agree as well. I have no truck with those who wish to study evolution, or those who wish to teach evolution to those who wish to study it. I simply maintain that as long as many teach that evolution is the only way, and creationism is false delusion that should be outlawed, the consequences of such views will breed masses of intolerance, and it is this intolerance that is the breeding ground for much violence, and even many wars. Without this intolerance of attitude, there would not be so much intolerance of attitude, and there would not be as much intolerant violence and wars.