Senator Burns Supports Veterans

In his own little way, he does.

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What the San Antonio Express-News had to say



Veterans say care is slipping away




Scott Huddleston
Express-News Staff Writer


KERRVILLE — Vowing to fight as hard for fairness as they did for their nation, South Texas veterans are sounding a call for health care services in areas they say are underserved.


Amid budget cuts and revamping of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, the Kerrville Veterans Hospital, a full-service hospital in the 1990s, has been stripped of such specialties as cardiology, endocrinology, orthopedics and dermatology.


A contract for the urologist there will expire next month, forcing veterans in a 14-county area to go to San Antonio for treatment, Alan Hill, president of the Hill Country chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, said at a rally Saturday.


Though routine procedures such as oral surgery, colonoscopies, podiatry care and X-rays are still done in Kerrville, Hill said the hospital will close by the end of the year, "if we don't put a stop to it."


"A nursing home with a clinic is all it'll be," he told about 120 supporters outside the hospital.


Local officials of the Veterans Affairs Department say there are no plans to close the Kerrville hospital.


Hill said veterans, one of the largest voting blocs in the nation, should take nothing for granted and be ready to vote against leaders who don't support veterans.


"They're lying to us. We've got to let them know we're tired of it," he said. "Vote someone else in who'll be pro-veteran."

I forget how many times he voted against funding them before he voted for giving them some capitol last year.

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