man! what a payback for our loyal troops...

A quick answer is as simple as releasing Vets from V.A. administrative bureaucracy and allowing them independent Medicaid. I cannot imagine any good reason why this has not already been done - although I can imagine plenty of bad ones.

While I think this should be a campaign issue, that thought leaves me as cold as the comfort provided to injured vets. Leaving the problem at the mercy of political footballers and all the usual delays that go with legislative events is no answer to immediate problems - particularly if we chose to regard substandard medical treatment of vets as an ongoing human rights issue - which it appears to be on several levels once we extract its substance from strict military regulation and supervision. From a civil perspective, government intransigence amounts to criminal negligence. From an historical perspective, shouldering blame is a disgusting two party embarrassment.

I am lucky,i only live 35 miles from my V.A. hospital.Some guys live a lot farther away than that.In an emergency we are in trouble.That is wrong!

Most facility's had no idea that we would be seeing the amount and type of injury's that we have seen.Remember "cakewalk" and "mission accomplished".They are understaffed and some of our guys are on waiting list to see doctors,and the suicide rate is climbing and as long as we are sending our people back for one tour after another it is going to get much worse.

When we give better health care to child molesters,... rats,and illegals than we do for those that sacrifice there minds and body's for us then things need to be changed,and NOW!!

I have posted many times that if you really believe in supporting our troops then remember that that support doesn't end when they come home.

Do you support our troops?

There have been some increases in funding for the V.A.,brought about by the the democrat congress,but not nearly enough.

We need to do one of two things:1.Put the V.A.funding as part of our department of defense funding,and get it out of the discretionary spending circus where our soldiers have to compete for dollars with the welfare programs.Taking care of veterans is part of the price of war and should be funded as such.Try to budget your money for your yearly spending without knowing how much money you will have,that is what V.A. has to do.

2.Do away with the V.A. hospital system altogether and go with a plan similar to what Bill Richardson had,where every veteran gets a card like Medicaid recipients get and let us find our own health care close to where we live. (cont.)