Military Vets discarded

the Walter Reed scandal should have every American up in arms, this is beyond travesty! we send our Military to fight and then allow the beaurocracy to shuffle their forever changed lives around like some useless baggage caught in an airport carosel. they deserve the Best medical care we can provide, the highest priority and the support of all Americans from every political vantage.

Lawmaker: Walter Reed 'tip of iceberg' - CNN.com

contact your politicians and encourage them not to dissolve responsibility among infinite commitees and focus groups but to ACT, now! heads must roll, people must be held to account. we owe our injured Military the best that medical science has to offer and the most compassion that our hearts can give. we send experts and pros to Gitmo to heal psychopaths that will just get out and try to kill our soldiers again but we leave our own soldiers in deplorable conditions, ON OUR SOIL!

give all you can to these brave people, think of what they have given for you!

Charity.com: Military & Veterans

I was watching that on CNN today

I hope this scandal will open up investigation throughout the entire VA system. So far, the Walter Reed fiasco doesn't bode well for a government run, single payer health care system, does it? Where's the Med Man when ya need him. *lol*

Vi

absolutely not, if the government can't handle less than a million patients it's not even plausible to consider them taking care of the entire nation...

as more and more of this problem comes to light it's obviously a case of very very poor management and leadership.. there still have not been enough people fired for this yet, imo.

i suspect that not too many people are taking the time to write their politicians and i fear that this is going to fade away before it gets resolved.

many people seem to think that news coverage means that something is getting done but it doesn't mean that at all...

Exactly right, 7x. There will be hearings on top of hearings, ... and then more hearings after that and nothing will be done. There is no profit motive driving the VA Administration, or anyone who works for them to do better. Bureaucrats are bureaucrats even when they have the designation of "Doctor" in front of their names. I'm afraid that the federal government is caving in upon itself.

Vi

ViRedd said:

I'm afraid that the federal government is caving in upon itself.
Vi

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True, true...
Unfortunately, it is doing it in slow motion! I think it will get much worse before enough people realize just how out of control the current two party system has become. The bloated behemoth bureaucracy is in its death throes, but a lot of Americans just don't see it this way, they just want to keep feeding this monstrosity!

Its the "entitlement mentality" Wavels. Used to be (Gawd! I'm sounding like an old geezer) that Americans understood that to be truly free required diligence. And that would be diligence against anything that would turn over the citizen's welfare to the federal government. Not anymore ... Now its just "what's in it for me?"

Vi

Dankdude said:

I'd say that that they have put so much money into this war that they have not much left over to take care of other things on the home front.

I think that it would be stupid to make the VA an for profit agency... Believe it or not there are more important things than making a profit.
(BTW, in case you haven't noticed you conservatives are about as popular as a turd in a fruit salad these days. )

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i agree totally with the first part. if you go to war you have to sacrifice things. we have a "credit" mentality, which is actually related to the "entitlement" attitude. the government wants to wage war completely on our credit, and have us pay down the road. they need to make some unpopular cuts in some of the pork projects, cut useless agencies, drop social spending programs in order to fund complete victory.

this "social distance" from the dirty mechanics of war is also what makes us such a war prone nation lately.. there's a lot of money that should be "re-deployed" to not only medical but to combat costs (armor, better intel, more troops).

the second half of your statement is where we part ways. i always believe that if you teach a man to fish... same goes to running services; you get a leader in charge who's livelihood depends on performance and innovation you will not see the kind of fiasco unraveling in front or our eyes with this scandal. neither the military or government is expert at health care and this task would be much more effectively handled by those who are.

it obviously doesn't make it effective or safe just because it's surrounded by government bureaucracy and overpaid political goons Dank...

(btw, there is more to life than being popular )