My Dad served 4 years in the late 50's in the Navy, never seeing war nor being injured and also receives health care at his local VA hospital.
Under Obama's Plan, if your Dad has some type of private/employee coverage it will be billed first. The VA will only pick up the bill if he has no coverage. Now if that same coverage is linked to the rest of his family, it will most likely have some sort of upper limit. If that family limit is reached by having to cover an in service injure, your Dad will have to pay out of pocket to cover the rest of the family for the rest of the year.
So he went back to a government job he had at a Naval Shipyard.
The Government jobs are required to give prefence to vets (with disabled even more), but private bussiness is not. The added cost to emploryers could be stagering.
Many Government contractors prefer to hire vets, but those same contractors are there to make money. A contractor/bussiness does not keep its doors open in order to provide insurence. If cost get to high, they will have to close their doors.