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VFW To Obama: Explain Health Plan

President Barack Obama To Address Veterans Of Foreign Wars Convention

POSTED: 9:20 pm MST August 16, 2009
UPDATED: 8:00 am MST August 17, 2009

As President Barack Obama prepares to speak to the Veterans of Foreign Wars service organization Monday, VFW members expressed hope he would answer their questions on his new health care proposal. "There's so much rhetoric going on," Korean War veteran Arnie Bulick said Sunday afternoon.

Bulick said he is unsure how the health care plan would affect him.

"[Obama is] having to counter rhetoric with rhetoric, and he doesn't really have too much of an opportunity to answer something effectively," Bulick said.

Other veterans expressed similar sentiments.

"I would like to hear him explain what his health care plan is and not give us all of this rhetoric and B.S. about AARP approving it and the insurance companies going along with it because I don't believe that," Vietnam veteran Anthony Mangine said.

"I would like for him to explain some things about universal health care," Korean War veteran Robert Nelson said. "It may not affect me, but my kids and grandkids could be affected, and that's a concern."

Obama may have a difficult time selling his proposal for universal health care to the 10,000 veterans attending the annual convention; many veterans supported his rival, Sen. John McCain, during last year's presidential election.

"I don't expect he'll be well received," Mangine said.

Obama is expecting to leave his room at The Phoenician at 10:15 a.m. Monday, and he is expected to address VFW members at the Phoenix Convention Center a short time later.

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