yes, just common sense = treatment would be a start.

--- "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]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justice For All Moderator
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> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:57 PM
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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
> depends on the unreasonable man.
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> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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