Posted on 03/01/2007 5:32:24 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
Please trust me, I feel so bad about what happen at Walter Reed but when was the last time our wounded didn't get the care they needed?
It's your typical government program mired in red tape.
If our wounded are not taken care by our bureaucratic system because governments are not perfect..we have to rely on our charitable organizations who can do something.
Please recommend an organization I can donate to. I do not want my money to go to organizations that help lawyers within the organization but actual help to our guys rehabilitation.
LOL yourself. Are you really so foolish as to believe that the firings of the Secretary of the Army and the WRAMC Commander will bring about changes for wounded troops?
You yourself are overwrought in refusing to admit that all this squabbling going on here is due to an article about ONE OUTBUILDING at WRAMC that is used for transitional patients and that irregularities were found in a very small percentage of the rooms. That is all that started this discussion.
Immediately, posters began extrapolating the "scandal" to include all of Walter Reed and then extended their griping to the whole VA system.
You also ignore the information provided that changes are underway, and have been underway for some time, to accommodate the medical needs of wounded troops returning from the battlefront. Walter Reed is due to close and services will be provided at a newer, larger facility.
I understand human suffering, including yours, very well through my own life experiences and my work in hospitals. Mismanaged medical care happens EVERY DAY in every hospital, not just military hospitals. Excellent care also occurs; lives are saved and miracles happen.
Do not turn on me because of your grievances. You're flinging your personal bitterness at the wrong target. Sorry you have to spew such venom at total strangers. You haven't even looked at my homepage, have you?
As I said before, many of the posts I'm seeing here on FR are more typical of other websites.
You call me a liberal and tell me to go to another board and and I'm spewing venom at YOU?
You local VFW is great. There's also AMVETS, and a new one for Marines called the Semper Fi Fund that I hear is doing good work.
I've taken more than enough abuse from you.
Do not post to me again.
Back atcha.
My beef is with the blatantly obvious spirit of "gotcha" in which the entire Reed system was condemned for political reasons. Since the reporters were working on this story for two years and are so concerned about the soldiers, why did it take them two years to start complaining? Because they don't give a darn about the soldiers; they only want to impale the Administration and hobble the war and recruitment effort.
That said, of course the troops should receive every improvement possible and should always have excellent medical care for the rest of their lives.
I write this as a former Army dependent who had a less-than-ideal major surgery in 1969 at a military hospital that has adversely affected my health ever since -- nevertheless, I call a hit piece when I see it.
Before you can report that patients are waiting 200-300 days to be processed, you have wait, oh, I'd say at least 200-300 days and then some to compile a reasonable list of patients that had to wait 200-300 days to be processed.
There's an echo in here!
The story is definitely an agenda-driven gotcha, but the problems with the military medical system are real and profound and go back decades. My own problems date from the late '80s, and I strongly doubt things improved much during the Clinton years.
Where did you hear they'd been working on the story for two years? If so, I wonder why they didn't release it as an October surprise.
I hope we get more from the politicians than grandstanding, bipartisan commissions and blue ribbon panels. I'd like to see a complete overhaul of the whole thing, including the VA, and the soldiers who can't get prompt care at military facilities should be given vouchers for care in the private sector.
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