Comments on: Senators Vow To Improve Wounded Vets' Care

Bob Dole And Donna Shalala Will Head Hospital Commission Named By President Bush

[d33pthroat1]

Oh no.. Not another old geezer commission to restate the obvious.

I can save the US citizens millions of dollars and tell you right now what this commisssion will report. It will be the following points stretched to a 200-page report.

(1) The military hospitals are overloaded due to significant case load resulting from the war. They were not ready to handle such an influx.
(2)Doctors/nurses are committed to providing the best medical care to wounded soldiers.
(3)The patients face significant red tape and paperwork before they can get medical care. This created problems with the high volume of sodiers.
(4) Due to lack of personnel, benefit claims are taking time to process.
(5) There are substandard living conditions in the hospitals due to lack of funds.

The recommendation would be to hire more personnel and pump more money into improving the living conditions.

No one would, of course, make the only recommendation that needs to be made: End the freakin' war.

[figuy30]

for the most part va facilities are designed to stabilize and/or maintain. the dr's. are faced with unending govt. bureaucracy & given their work load they're doing a good job. the houston va hospital is an excellant example and the care given there exceeds most private institutions. i personally have not been to any va hospital or clinic where my needs weren't addressed with genuine concern. any criticism of the va dr's, hospitals, and clinics should be directed to the govt. agency charged with funding them.

[retmilspouse]

I feel this is typical of Bush and the hypocritical Republican party ... they pretend to care about a fetus; but not for the child it becomes ... they wave the flag as they send our soldiers into combat; but fail to provide the funds to mend the broken bodies and minds the conflict produces. What Republicans do is always for either political advantage or to increase the profits of their campaign contributors. Wounded soldiers, to the Bushiites, are the equivalent of laid off employees .. once they were needed, but now they are just a drain on profits. With Bush's latest budget, veteran care will worsen .. thank goodness the Democrats care about the soldiers BEFORE, during, and AFTER their service to this country.
Posted by afmca at 10:01 AM : Mar 06, 2007

Give me a break, The VA medical system has been broken for years and everyone knows it. Check back on the years when Dems dominated the House and Senate. We just weren't in a war situation then so it wasn't in the news as much. Don't try and blame it on the Republicans, its been broke, just fix it and quit whinning about politics. Everything is not a left/right issue.

[mcvet]

WHO still supports this FRAUD Bush? I'm serious WHO can call themselves an American and support the INCOMPETENCE and flat out ARROGANCE of this little Southern Nazi after all he's done? What kind of people are these? I'll say this, I sure as HELL hope my freedoms are never at risk with them there to defend it. They have NO idea what freedom is or what our system is about!!

[mcvet]

Well IF you have heard about it that is. The Reich Press has played the Anna Simpson mess 4 times to nearly none on this issue. If we had to rely on them to report these abuses no one would know it. The Fair and Balanced Network had Hannity address it... he was only concerned with the political embarrassment to Sir Lies-A-Lot... didn't even mention those Vets and how they were being treated. Guess that really shows who REALLY cares our the Troops huh?

[bogusbones]

Why do they keep throwing the same old tired bodies at these problems that are causing us national disgrace? These two people, although accomplished, don't have the energy nor the desire to fix this terrible problem. Again, our fearless leader makes headlines trying to solve a problem he created.

[davek455]

abbe7 - I noticed the same thing about the Cheney article. No opportunity to post comments. CBS news knows what types of comments would be posted and would have to boot most commentors from posting.

[observantx]

That smarmy mealy mouthed Nicholson should get the boot also. I've listened to him spouting platitudes and covering his butt every day since this mess hit the spotlight.

We should throw these guys into Iraq. And when they come back on a stretcher, they can get a taste of their own medicine at Walter Reed.

[MIpapaof4]

They say that the VA Health Care system is above all. I happen to disagree. I am enrolled in the VA health care system and I know as a fact that the dr's there don't care one iota for us. They are there to get a pycheck and that is all. I am treated as a non person and I'm about to report one dr in particular who lied on his report and put it into my records. He, along with others are arogant liars getting a paycheck. Now, How wrong is this?

[abbe7]

Do they treat blood clots in Walter Reed ?
Some articles have a comment section, others don't ... I wonder why ...

[springfever0]

General Kiley should go. His performance as regards the problems has been less than stellar. When he commanded Walter Reed, for whatever reason, he allowed the problems to go unaddressed. When it hit the fan, instead of stepping forward, he tried to outmaneuver the press and then held a whiney press conference minimizing the problems. He seems satisfied to see General Weightman, his subordinate who had only been at Walter Reed for a few months to take the fall. Unlike General Weightman, he ducks accountability. He lacks character.

[davek455]

It should be apparent to everyone by now that Republicans do not support the troops. Republican president + Republican-controlled Senate Republican-controlled House for the past 7 years = neglect of military hospitals and their patients. Republicans say they are the ones who support the troops, but their actions are to the contrary.

[afmca]

I feel this is typical of Bush and the hypocritical Republican party ... they pretend to care about a fetus; but not for the child it becomes ... they wave the flag as they send our soldiers into combat; but fail to provide the funds to mend the broken bodies and minds the conflict produces. What Republicans do is always for either political advantage or to increase the profits of their campaign contributors. Wounded soldiers, to the Bushiites, are the equivalent of laid off employees .. once they were needed, but now they are just a drain on profits. With Bush's latest budget, veteran care will worsen .. thank goodness the Democrats care about the soldiers BEFORE, during, and AFTER their service to this country.

[frankly6]

Walter Reed is just the tip of the iceburg.

Across the nation, soldiers returning from Iraq are having to wait weeks and even months to see a doctor.

Is this what Republicans mean by support our troops?

Bumper-sticker slogans don't mend broken lives.

Bumper-sticker slogans don't fulfil broken promises.

[clemenhagen1]

Do any conservatives out there really believe this would be investigated and pursued if the Republican still controlled the House and Senate. They conducted zero Congressional oversight for years; this they would sweep under the rug as potentially "embarrassing to the president" if they had their druthers and their former powers.

[scott4261]

Whether you are Republican, Democrat, or independent, you should all be appalled by the conditions at Walter Reed.