Back during WWII, the federal government made a deal: if you joined any branch of the service, and made it your career, that is: stayed in the service for a set number of years, not merely your initial enlistment period, you were guaranteed lifetime medical insurance. This does not seem extravagant, seeing what the military does. These men and women put themselves in harms way for the rest of us. I don't think it's much to ask that we (the tax payers) take care of them.
Bill and Hillary Clinton reneged on that deal.
They threw vets off of their insurance and pulled the rug out from under military personnel who counted on that insurance for themselves and their families. The '90s saw talent hemorrhage from all branches of the service because men with families couldn't afford to stay in.
This was Hillary's doing. Health care was her baby.
She bragged at the time not only that she'd succeeded in reducing the cost of health care (yeah, refusing to cover people does cut costs) she also bragged that the administration had succeeded in cutting the size of government, her rationale being that military personnel are gov. employees, therefor a smaller military = smaller government.
Col. Bud Day (MOH) came out of retirement (not as a colonel but as a lawyer) to sue the Clinton administration over their attempt to welsh on the decades old deal between the federal government and military personnel. He fought the feds and he won.
It's good that the federal government was forced to uphold its end of the bargain with the men and women of our armed services.
It's not good that the woman who tried to throw them out into the street has just won the presidential nomination of a major political party.
Hillary Clinton's callous disregard for those who serve, her willingness to renege on a decades long agreement and the self serving spin she put on her cold hearted actions are merely a fraction of the reason why so many of us who were paying attention during the '90s will never vote for Hillary Clinton.