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Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Segment Leads To Huge Change For Veterans

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Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Segment Leads To Huge Change For Veterans


kudos to Jon and TDS for making a difference for vets!
 
It's not directly attributable to Stewart. I know Stewart is some liberal knight in shining armor the article even points this out:

Huffpo said:
....seemingly in response to what Stewart called his "damning piece of investigative joke-a-lism," the Department of Veterans Affairs changed the rule and will now use actual driven miles based on Google Maps rather than "as-the-crow-flies" miles.
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So a parody news program on the Comedy Channel cable station is making changes in VA policy? That in and of itself is worrying. Perhaps Eddie Murphy or Bill Murray should tweet out what the US needs to do about ISIS so the DoD can make some strategy changes.


However, the change was good by the VA. It makes sense.
 
I saw that piece...if that effected the change...a big kudos to The Daily Show.


And remember, it is not Jon Stewart's Daily Show. He is the host (and a great one, IMO) and sometime contributor.

But it is the people behind the scenes (producers/writers) that powers the show.

When he leaves, the show will still probably be as it is now, just with a different host.
 
Jon Stewart also helped push the Congress to stop dicking around with rescue worker's benefits after 9-11. It's no surprise that conservatives want this show pulled off the air ASAP.
 
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cpwill said:
The insistence by the VA that veterans be forced to use their facilities is one of the many ways in which that organization prioritizes it's own bureaucracy above the veterans it is intended to serve. Good on Stewart for this.
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It makes little sense to have veterans only facilities that offer general medical care which is available locally but with less delay and red tape. Why did PPACA not allow for eligible veterans to get 100% federally subsidized exchange policies and do away with all veterans only facilities? It seems that once a gov't program is established that it never goes away.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Segment Leads To Huge Change For Veterans



kudos to Jon and TDS for making a difference for vets!
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How on earth did Jon Stewart even know about this?

I betcha I know ... from his favorite whipping boy more than a week before Stewart decided to mention it.

VA program to provide private care stumbling out of the gate | Fox News


So it's really "Kudos to Jon for watching FOX NEWS".
 

I wonder what the feasibility is of using Tricare for veterans instead of the VA health system?
 
cpwill said:
The insistence by the VA that veterans be forced to use their facilities is one of the many ways in which that organization prioritizes it's own bureaucracy above the veterans it is intended to serve. Good on Stewart for this.
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First off, the Choice program really does not do this, and kinda the opposite. It is a good program that I found out about when I got my card in the mail(and yes, there really is a card). If you are a vet getting government subsided health benefits for being a vet, you are going to be using the VA bureaucracy whether you actually are treated at a VA center or not. And at this time, closing up all the VA centers that are already built and payed for and just paying for people to use civilian facilities on the government dime is probably not the most cost efficient way to do things.

Not to mention I have had good experiences in dealing with the VA. The people are proud to work with vets mostly, and go out of their way to treat vets well and with respect. Most of my dealings with the VA has been in doing volunteer work driving vets(mostly older ones) to the VA facility, so as far as actual treatments I cannot comment, but I do love the people there and their attitudes.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Segment Leads To Huge Change For Veterans



kudos to Jon and TDS for making a difference for vets!
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Who brought it to the attention of the VA and forced the change does not matter one bit to me. That is just petty pissant partisanship. We should be happy a good change was made and not worry so much about who caused it to happen(I suspect that maybe the viewers of both might have had a role to play, but that is just a guess and doesn't matter much).
 

It has to sting that the True Patriots at Fox News were too busy complaining about Obama not being circumcised enough to do this. :lol:
 
Thorgasm said:
It has to sting that the True Patriots at Fox News were too busy complaining about Obama not being circumcised enough to do this. :lol:
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I don't know - did it sting? I'd guess MSNBC was too busy complaining about Fox News to do the same - so a round of impotence to everyone!
 
Whether or not this particular case can be attributed to the Daily Show, The Daily Show, and others like it, HAVE effected change. It is true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
 
Ockham said:
I don't know - did it sting? I'd guess MSNBC was too busy complaining about Fox News to do the same - so a round of impotence to everyone!
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CNN lost an airplane.
 
reinoe said:
Jon Stewart also helped push the Congress to stop dicking around with rescue worker's benefits after 9-11. It's no surprise that conservatives want this show pulled off the air ASAP.
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Which conservatives have said they want the show pulled?
 
azgreg said:
I wonder what the feasibility is of using Tricare for veterans instead of the VA health system?
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I wouldn't like that. Have you seen what Obama has done to tricare? I recently got a pamphlet on tricare and what has been done to retirees in terms of co-pay/shared costs is atrocious. Any serious condition requiring hospitalization could easily bankrupt a veteran living on retirement, even if supplemented by disability. I'm rated 100% by the VA and it would be difficult to impossible for me to afford my care on the tricare system. It is even worse for veterans who have dependents.

If tricare was returned to the benefits and costs of CHAMPUS, then it would be a good deal. With the Obama version of Tricare, forget it. It would be a deathblow to many veterans.

Free medical care for life, for yourself and dependents, if you served until retirement was what was promised, that is now what we have now, especially since the start of the Obama regime.
 
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