Amy McGrath
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What the VA is doing here is saying you're going to have less of a rating.
And so what that's going to do is a lot of veterans that are prescribed medication for their service related problems, medical problems, they'll cut off that medication, you know, then rather than lose compensation.
I mean, you're putting veterans, you're making veterans take a choice, make a choice here.
Oh, you can either get compensated or you can get treatment.
But not both.
100%.
Right now, we're looking at losing all these veterans, millions of us, losing benefits.
And how hard is it to get those benefits?
You don't just snap a finger.
And, you know, people need to understand a lot of veterans, everybody has a different experience, but a lot of veterans fight for years to get the benefits that they earned and deserve from their service-connected
or service-related disabilities.
I mean, this is wrong.
I mean, usually it takes a year or so.
Four.
Yeah, and the other thing about this administration and these Republicans that are pushing this through is they're disregarding clear court decisions that previously have said you cannot do this.
And this is just another way this administration is saying, eh, we don't care about the law.
We're just going to do our own thing.
And, of course, shutting out veterans from providing any input before they did it.
I mean, this is...
Yeah, and they're already trying to get the VA.