Obama tells VFW that veterans’ health care not impacted by overhaul he has championed

Obama: VA care not affected by health overhaul

PHOENIX — President Barack Obama says a proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system is not going to change how veterans get their medical services.

Obama on Monday told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that no one in Washington is talking about taking away their benefits. Instead, Obama said he’s instructed senior aides to work with the secretary of veterans affairs to come up with better ways to serve veterans.

Obama told the veterans gathered in Phoenix that he wants the 57 regional VA offices to come up with the best way to do business and harness technology to break through the bureaucracy. Obama has repeatedly complained that red tape keeps too many veterans from the care they deserve.