U.S. Navy veteran says he's gotten 'very little' from VA.
Clifford Bare, a 76-year-old retired U.S. Navy veteran served in the Pacific during both the Korean and Vietnam wars.
A veteran with no service-related injuries and with an annual income of $35,577 can be denied VA health benefits. The amount varies by state but it is about $35,000.
Bares' $25,000 annual income in below this, but his benefits are now jeopardized because the couple had to tap their savings to help cover Norma's hospital costs after being treated for cancer and a heart attack.
We gave the Navy the best years of my life and nobody seems to care -- until now."
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont, has called on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to expand health care coverage to include all veterans regardless of income or whether they are wounded. Tester, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, has implored VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to immediately return Priority 8 veterans to the health care system.
"We put in our time," Bare said. "We dodged bullets. Does that make us less than the men who lost a leg?"
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is calling on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to expand health care coverage to include all former soldiers regardless of income or whether they are wounded.
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