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2007-04-16 Home Front: WoT

Wounded troops reveal flaws in system that delivers care

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Liberal healthcare workers totally uncaring towards wounded soldiers? I can't believe it! It's as if they have some sort of "screw them" mentality.

Posted by gromky 2007-04-16 04:20|| 2007-04-16 04:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Some individuals, most of whom are civilian workers and do not wear the uniform, judge the wounded unfairly and treat them similarly, adopting a Cant help you, youre on your own attitude

Uncaring DoD civilian employees? This all taking place at gummit facility within the beltway? Incomprehensible! How can this be? Hearings, testimony! We must have hearings and testimony, following by more testimony and additional hearings. I blame Don Imus!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-04-16 05:59|| 2007-04-16 05:59|| Front Page Top

#3 This is what 'government health care' looks like. Get used to it.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-16 07:25|| 2007-04-16 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The root cause, of course, is the Viet...opps...the Iraq War. This has never happened before,right?

At leat not in the memory of the journalists...

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-16 07:27|| 2007-04-16 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Article subtitled: Among the complaints are a lack of compassion and an abundance of paperwork. That's what I meant - tha complaint has not been heard about the VA since ...

While the link is to a KC paper, the article is from the New York Times. They just never give up.

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-16 07:29|| 2007-04-16 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 The entire military health system is over-worked, buried in paperwork, and poorly funded. There are also a few really crappy "hospital commanders" who make matters worse. Congress has made promise after promise, then reneged on them when the bill came due. The VA system is clogged beyond fixing, the military retirement medical "benefit" has been cut so many times it's on life support. Anyone who proposes to put the entire country on the same or similar system deserves to be sent to GITMO and turned over to the Cubans for health care. Yet this "panel" will only offer some window-dressing, not a comprehensive overhaul.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-16 14:45|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-16 14:45|| Front Page Top

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