If your a VET and this doesn't p.i.s.s you off....

@VegasFrank , now you know more than one.  I didn't claim tinnitus, I was a Tank Crew member, driver, gunner, TC, and believe me I have tinnitus.  I also didn't claim my knee, which is now titanium thanks to having no cartilage in it while running multi-miles every morning, often with a backpack.  Not to mention jumping up and down off the tank.  I also didn't claim my labral and rotator cuff tears.  Or the carpal tunnel.

But I did claim my back injury, which is hurting like hell again today.  No, I don't get a check.  Never asked for one.  The lady I had to talk to said
"Son, they're not gonna give you a check for this." 
I told her I wasn't looking for a check, but since I was obviously going to have back pain every day for the rest of my life, for doing what I was told, I did think that I should get treatment. 
She said
"Oh we treat everyone, look around."
I said
"I've been looking around, and I don't think I should have to wait in line behind people who've never served a single day in their life."

She approved the claim.

I've had some degree of back pain every single day since May 16th 1986.  Yesterday and today I can't do hardly anything I want to do because it's flared up again.  Can't complain too much though, I was able to put on my own shoes and walk around, so, it's been worse.

Rant over, sorry, the back pain makes me grouchy sometimes.  

I don't think that anyone missed the point @jd50ae.  The opinion column was about VA med benefits and the gi bill.  We're talking about the VA, but if you want to talk about the proposed ban on University of Phoenix, we can talk about that too.   

I would say that a lot of the biggest for profit colleges sell students (their customers) a bunch of promises that they don't deliver. That promise is a competitive degree, which many of them never give.

From where I'm sitting, I see that both I and many of my colleagues don't value a u of p BA as much as we do a BA from a non profit.  Sorry brothers, but it's true.  5 week semesters and credit for life experience just doesn't cut it for me.i need that BA candidate to sit in college algebra for a whole semester, not get credit for the babysitting side job she ran from her house 10 years ago.  (I've seen this happen).  That business law class needs to be more than 5 3 hour classes long.  Hell, mine was 16 3 hour class sessions, and you can't tell me that you learn the same material in 5 weeks that you do in 16.

Now. I understand your point about restricting choices.  I wouldn't go as far as to say that this equates to sub-illegal alien treatment, but to each his own.  I will tell you though that the military has been blacklisting businesses for, oh, about 200 years or so. When I was in,  Troops couldn't go to jd byrider or payday loan places.  True story!

I do agree that trade schools are important, but not all are banned.  The very unfortunate fact of the matter is that most of the for profit schools are crap, and a lot of them are predatory, charging 200K for a welding certificate that a guy will use to start at 17 bucks an hour....all paid for by the department of education and giving that welder no shot of ever repaying the student loan ...

However, I'm not one to buy into the bullshhhyyyte of Republicans OR Democrats.  Republicans claim that these schools are being blacklisted because the Democrats want the military guys to be brainwashed by liberal thinking non profit schools and teachers...if you believe that, I have some gurkha, I'm I mean cohiba Cubans to sell you...