OK, I said I'd get you back to your previous discussion, and then I saw
this....

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/general_to_bush.html


On 3/30/07, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Article on recently passed bill to improve health care for injured service
> members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.  I have no argument with
> improving the care that returning soldiers receive, but I do wish there was
> a way to ensure that all people with disabilities would receive the care
> they need.  We now return you to your previous discussion ;-{)}
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mar 30, 2007 11:00 AM
> Subject: FW: House Passes Bill to Improve Veterans' Care
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justice For All Moderator [mailto: [log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: House Passes Bill to Improve Veterans' Care
>
> House Passes Bill to Improve Veterans' Care
>
> March 29, 2007
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)  Reacting to shabby treatment of wounded
> service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the House on
> Wednesday created a coterie of case managers, advocates and
> counselors for injured troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> The Wounded Warrior Assistance Act, approved 426 to 0, also
> establishes a hot line for medical patients to report problems in
> their treatment and demands an end to the red tape that has
> frustrated disabled service members as they move from Pentagon
> care to care by the Veterans Affairs Department.
>
> The bill would affect some of the more than 25,000 American
> service members wounded in hostile action since military
> operations began in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> "We cannot allow those who have fought our foreign enemies in the
> defense of freedom to come home and fight the federal bureaucracy
> to get the health care they need," said Representative Candice S.
> Miller, Republican of Michigan and a member of the Armed Services
> Committee.
>
> The White House said in a statement that while those goals were
> commendable, the legislation was premature and suggested that
> Congress wait for a report from a presidential commission and a
> task force on the war-wounded created after the exposure of poor
> conditions and treatment at Walter Reed. Those findings are
> expected by the end of July.
>
> The bill requires Senate action before it goes to the president.
>
> Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, whose
> support for a strong military is a cornerstone of his presidential
> aspirations, said he was particularly pleased with a provision
> that would improve personal care by limiting medical care case
> managers to 17 cases at a time. Mr. Hunter, the ranking Republican
> on the Armed Services Committee, said he also liked the
> legislation's move toward more information sharing between the
> Defense Department and the V.A. and steps to ease the transition
> to veteran status.
>
> Under the bill, the defense secretary would be required to provide
> disabled service members being separated or retired from active
> duty with a written plan for transition to V.A. programs.
>
> Several amendments directed that more attention be paid to the
> mental health of returning combatants.
>
> Source: New York Times
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> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
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> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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