House votes 399-0 to end disgraceful practice of charging injured veterans for hospital meals
It's time once again to contact the two Senators from your state and urge them to introduce, cosponsor, or otherwise support a Senate version of H.R. 2998, so that the United States of America can stop sending servicepeople wounded in combat bills for their hospital meals. Apparently that's been the law for most of my lifetime, but Rep. C.W Bill Young (R-Florida) found out about it from his wife, Beverly, who learned about the meal charges while doing volunteer work with injured veterans. Rep. Young and 255 other cosponsors introduced a bill to fix the problem, and yesterday the House passed it, 399-0. The Youngs even dug into their own pockets to pay a $210.60 bill (at $8.10 per day) for a Marine reservist who lost part of his foot in Iraq.