Trump’s speech to spell out veteran health care proposal

He also called for an expansion of programs that allow veterans to choose their doctor and clinics, regardless of whether they’re VA facilities or private medical centers.

In a policy speech announcing a 10-point plan for veterans, Trump said he “begins with a simple promise: Every veteran will get timely access to top-quality care”. The White House hotline seems like an interesting approach.

So said Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego hours before Trump was scheduled to deliver a speech about reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs’ healthcare system. “You defend America, and America will defend you”, Trump is expected to say in the speech, according to excerpts provided by his campaign.

“Never again will we allow a veteran to suffer or die waiting for the care they so richly deserve”, he said. The Republican presumptive nominee also stated that corporations could “easily” fill low-wage jobs with veterans, and that those who served their country should “come first in the country they fought to protect”.

Still, that’s a far cry from the support that former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had over President Barack Obama during the 2012 race. “And we know from experience that simply privatizing the VA won’t work”. Perhaps her Goals 2000 initiative, which basically exported Arkansas failed educational model to the nation, ensured the masses received a substandard education such that we would not know if she was lying or telling the truth. Hillary Clinton is the secretary of the status quo. I can not stand the woman and believe she is a pathological liar with no respect for our country or its institutions.

“You defend America, and America will defend you”, Trump promised veterans.

Gallego, who was joined by colleague and fellow Iraq War veteran Rep. Seth Moulton in a telephone press conference hosted by the Hillary Clinton campaign, blasted privatization as a bad idea. Trump, the only remaining GOP candidate left in the race, will go on to accept the nomination at the party’s national convention in Cleveland.

He compared the atmosphere to the hostility veterans faced after the Vietnam War, and called for that “hostility” to “end immediately, right now”.

Trump has been test-driving his vice presidential possibilities. He will also pledge to discipline federal workers who abuse the system and appoint a commission to investigate the VA and present its findings to Congress. It is unclear how that commission would be different from the one that unveiled its findings last week.

Shortly after the investigation concludes, Congress will receive the results in a report meant to kick-start serious reform.

Asked how he would negotiate due-process laws that have made it hard for the VA to fire employees accused of wrongdoing, Trump said that would be no problem.

Mr. Trump will stop giving bonuses to any VA employees who are wasting money, and start rewarding employees who seek to improve the VA’s service, cut waste, and save lives.

Trump also proposed overhauling the current visa programs “to ensure American Veterans are in the front, not back, of the line”. “But you can’t have true compassion without providing safety for the citizens of our country”, Trump told his supporters at an event in Virginia.