Show legion hits at hoover report insurance plan continuing the article on the legions view view of the hoover hoor hoo r commission sion on veterans vetar ms affairs the local post GT 7 of the american Amei ican legion le ays the ahe dembei oi of the armed aimed forces of world wars I 1 and 11 II were briefed endlessly pleaded with ith find and high pressured by bv then their co commanding ni manding officers office ih to take out government life insurance the government went vent into this insurance field because commercial coninie nial om coni parties wanted no pait pat t of the costs of the hazards of war ai our oui fighting mui men and women were told that the government go eminent had then their interest at heart and was vas assuming the cost of the extra hazards of war wai so that every serviceman and woman could afford to catry cairy this war n in surane during woi id war wai II 11 ilone alone D 1 tl 10 applications for national service life insurance were cie it approved p showing the belief of the veteran in in his government Kovein ment after mobilization demobilization d the t li e government ca in strenuously to induce every veteran to reinstate ind and convert on eit his insurance into some per pei mayrent form and keep keel it lit in effect the commission pro pio poses to mess iness up the veterans insurance affairs affens over the objections 0 of f its own task force foice which studied the VA NIA insurance activities the task roice force engaged the tiun diun dle engineering company nian arcement engineers engine eis to look into the VA insurance matters matteis this grou 11 0 of f experts epe its as well as ab insurance insurance executives on oil the task roice fore itself DID NOT recommend commend le diore cing cink tile the insurance activities from the VA tile the commission also the dissimilarity between govern arient insurance and commercial in s u rance the VA has no large a gency force foice in in the field private insurance companies do the proposed pio posed new insurance corporation corpo po ration would apparently include its own stiff toi legal personnel supply finance and file indexing purposes purpose 1 this would mean creating many new jobs but the individual veterans vete ians case folder on other claims would remain in the VA the corporation would fre fie fluently need to refer to this folder when it ninde made any move in any an veterans c insurance matter the american legion mn can see absolutely no economy in such a setup set up only more moie duplication ino moie re confusion more moie red led tape more moie trouble for foi the veteran and betrayal of the grossest kind the next article will discuss another angle of deep concern to every world war wai II 11 veteran ve the proposed messing up tip of guaranty loans under the G 1 I bill of rights |