Don't Mess With Vets Health Care

Our veterans have risked life and limb to keep our country and us safe. Many of them come home with serious physical and mental injuries and disabilities. If any American citizens deserve high-quality and easily-accessible medical care, it's these men and women. That's why we have TRICARE -- government-sponsored health insurance specifically for vets.

Yet Congress continues to gamble with health care for vets by refusing to deal with the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) -- the same formula that's used to decide how much to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients. If Congress does nothing, these payments could be slashed by nearly 25 percent on March 1, which would make the cost of seeing vets too expensive for doctors and potentially meaning some veterans won't be able to find a provider who can take their insurance.

The least we can do for Americans who risked it all for us is to care for them when they get home. Tell Congress to pass a real solution to Medicare and TRICARE payments.