VDARE.COM editor D.A. King has written an important Op-ed in today’s Washington Times titled “A Second Look at Veteran Priorities” on the hosing veterans are getting on their medical care.

While millions of illegal immigrants riding free, veterans like D.A. are seeing their medical benefits cut back. As a doctor friend told me, “You pay more because they pay nothing.”

D.A. poses two important questions: 1) When did illegal aliens become more important to the federal government than U.S. veterans? 2) Will today’s soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan also be turned away when their time of need comes so that the government can fund unlimited alien health care?

See my 2003 column “Illegal Aliens: The Health Cost Dimension” that analyzes the cost of providing for aliens at the expense of veterans.