Reform: Team Trump Announces Potential Private Healthcare Option For Veterans

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President-elect Donald Trump hasn't tapped a VA Secretary yet, but yesterday his transition team announced plans for VA reform will include allowing veterans to seek private healthcare options. From the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Trump is considering changing the department to allow some veterans to bypass the VA heath-care system completely and get care exclusively from private-sector hospitals and clinics, the official said. It is an option that could give veterans full choice over their health care, but which many veterans groups argue is the first step toward privatization and one that will reduce the quality of health care over the long term.

“It’s one of the options on the table,” the transition official said Wednesday. ”Definitely an option on the table to have a system where potentially vets can choose either or, or all private.”

On the campaign trail, Trump laid out a 10-point plan for reforming the VA system, which has left thousands of veterans dead due to overwhelming medical wait times.

1. Appoint a VA Secretary whose sole purpose will be to serve veterans. Under a Trump Administration, the needs of D.C. bureaucrats will no longer be placed above those of our veterans.

US Hits Russian Officials With Sanctions Over Election Hacks

By Todd Beamon / NEWSMAX

President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats Thursday and closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland in executive orders to punish Moscow for harassment against American diplomats and cyberattacks that interfered in the presidential election.

"These actions follow repeated private and public warnings that we have issued to the Russian government, and are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behavior," Obama said in a statement announcing the actions.

"All Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions," he added. "Such activities have consequences."

The Russian Foreign Ministry ripped the sanctions, saying they added to "already destroyed" relations between the United States and Moscow.

See entire article here: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Russia-Sanctions-US-Obama/2016/12/29/id/766076/?ns_mail_uid=32379927&ns_mail_job=1701622_12292016&s=al&dkt_nbr=vjtoxz4l

Obama administration now bringing in 290 Muslim migrants every day
 

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

Yes, they are overwhelmingly Muslim, so we can be sure that many will bring with them a model of society and governance that they are convinced is superior to the one they will encounter here. And many will be determined to replace the one with the other. Obama is sowing the seeds of civil strife […]
 
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US government to set up ‘anti-propaganda center’ after Obama signs new law

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

What does President Obama consider “foreign propaganda”? Herein lies the rub. President Obama has stacked numerous U.S. government agencies with Muslim Brotherhood subversives who traffic heavily in foreign propaganda. College campuses are rife with Hamas (SJP) groups agitating against the Israel and America

Obama has clearly stated that “the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Will the “anti-propaganda center” be sharia-compliant?

Who decides what’s propaganda and what’s not? All of the major news networks are propaganda machines for the uber-left. Who decides what’s good and what’s forbidden?

This threatens our First Amendment rights.

Read the entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2016/12/us-government-set-anti-propaganda-center-obama-signs-new-law.html/

A RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS heads up...

On Tuesday, January 3rd, from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori present 'Standing for Israel...A Special Report.' Our very special guest will be Mudar Zahran, Secretary General of the Jordanian Coalition of Opposition.

Hope you can tune in at: bit.ly/2cpXuRd