Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will unveil what her campaign is calling a comprehensive plan to revamp the delivery of health care to veterans, make the Department of Veterans Affairs more accountable, and improve conditions for active military personnel.
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“Secretary Clinton should know that the overwhelming majority of veterans not only don’t consider the Choice Card ‘privatization, ‘ they want this reform and in fact consider it necessary to expand their healthcare choices”.
The man, who said he was a former Hewlett-Packard employee laid off during Fiorina’s tenure as HP’s chief executive, said he wanted to “reach through” the television and “strangle” Fiorina when he sees her on television.
Every candidate in the prime-time show mentioned the Democratic front-runner at least once – and they didn’t have good things to say. Clinton is seen as the stronger candidate on issues of concern to African-Americans in a primary where the majority of voters will be black. “I know that doesn’t sound very nice”.
Clinton at her September 24 fundraiser in Cresskill.
Clinton says if an affiliate of the Islamic State was responsible for the recent Russian plane crash “that raises the stakes” for the US and other nations.
While the remarks came from an audience member and not Clinton herself, the former secretary of state did little to disavow them in the moment.
But Clinton also faulted Republicans for using “the problem as an excuse to privatize the VA and to end it as part of their ideological crusade”.
To have a declaration of war, she said, requires understanding the resources available and the goals involved.
And Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who spent the night trying to insert himself into the middle of the action, much as he is struggling to grab a central role in the wider nominating race, used Clinton as a rallying cry for GOP unity.
Clinton will address VA waitlist issues when she proposes integrating Department of Defense and VA medical evaluations, allowing a few “rules-based automatic adjudication” for simple applications and providing veterans with an appeals process to challenge the VA when they think their health claims are unfairly denied.
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He added, “She told us it was for cost-cutting”. “I understand you can’t have someone who’s battled cancer just become known as a preexisting condition”.
