Sarah Palin in The Huffington Post


On Health Care: Vouchers for veterans' health care outside the VA system

Palin said at the Conservative Political Action Conference, "We can't wait for D.C. to fix their bureaucratic blunders. Just because one guy at the top resigned, well, the problems didn't resign," Palin said, referring to former Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who resigned last spring after reports about waiting times and falsified records emerged.

Palin didn't just criticize; she offered her own policy suggestions for improving veterans' lives. She suggested, for instance, that Congress should pass legislation to secure veterans' benefits permanently. She also said that the government should provide vouchers to veterans to pay for health care outside the VA system.

Source: Huffington Post on 2015 Conservative Political Action Conf. Feb 26, 2015

On Homeland Security: Dozens of veterans per day commit suicide; VA should help

Palin used her speech at CPAC to focus on veterans' issues. Palin spoke about the numerous challenges that many veterans face once they return home from war, including post-traumatic stress disorder, unemployment, divorce and suicide: "As we gather here, we're safe, we're secure, we're having fun, four days together at a conference. In those four days, 92 of our veterans will have taken their lives," she told her audience.

The former vice presidential candidate also said that veterans weren't receiving the care that they needed from the Veterans Affairs Department and alluded to the scandal over long waiting times for appointments at VA hospitals: "America hands over her sons and her daughters with the promise that they're going to be taken care of," Palin said. "We can't wait for D.C. to fix their bureaucratic blunders. This bureaucracy is killing our vets. They wait for months, they wait for years to get treatment at the VA, and they're losing hope."

Source: Huffington Post on 2015 Conservative Political Action Conf. Feb 26, 2015

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