If John McCain is elected he will work to keep veterans from receiving the outstanding medical attention that he himself received.

On the campaign trail, the Republican's presumptive nominee has talked of a new mission for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and argued that veterans with non-combat medical problems should be given vouchers to receive care at private, for-profit hospitals -- in other words, an end to the kind of universal health care the government has guaranteed veterans for generations.

"We need to relieve the burden on the VA from routine health care," McCain told the National Forum on Disability Issues last month. "If you have a routine health care need, take it wherever you want, whatever doctor or health care provider and get the treatment you need, while we at the VA focus our attention, our care, our love, on these grievous wounds of war."

The Republican senator argues that giving veterans a VA card that they can use at private doctors would shorten the long wait times many veterans face in seeing government doctors, who are nearly universally viewed as among the best in the world.

A recent study by the RAND Corporation found that "VA patients were more likely to receive recommended care" and "received consistently better care across the board, including screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow up" than that delivered by other U.S. health care providers.

Virtually all veterans groups oppose McCain's plan. The Veterans of Foreign Wars' national legislative director has said the VA card would "undermine the entire system".

You know occasionally I receive comments telling me I am not honoring John McCain's service and that I should treat him like the war hero that he is.

Well how can I be expected to honor John McCain when he is talks about his unwavering support for our military while he is planning to stab them in the back?

This plan would mean that the V.A. could turn away patients that they deem unqualified for their services and send them to other medical providers who may not completely understand the kinds of problems that these brave men and women may be suffering with. Like PTSD, or Gulf War Syndrome, or unusual allergies, or even the side effects of a chemical attack.

Does anybody really believe that your local family doctor is going to know what to do in those circumstances? Of course not.

John McCain is slowly being revealed to be one of the biggest hypocrites that this country has ever produced. Perhaps that is why he became so much more comfortable with George Bush and his cronies, after he got to know them better. Clearly they have much in common.