The Fighting 29th All about New York's 29th Congressional District http://www.fighting29th.com/node/4277/atom/feed 2007-03-12T12:21:50-04:00 More Thinking About the VA http://www.fighting29th.com/2007/03/more-thinking-about-the-va.html 2007-03-12T12:21:50-04:00 2007-03-12T12:21:50-04:00 Rottenchester Reader Rich wrote to point out Bob Lonsberry's March 7 column, where he asks the same question that I asked last month: Why do Veterans have a separate and unequal healthcare delivery system? Bob's column adds another angle, pointing out that medicaid recipients are entitled to care in any facility, yet Veterans aren't.

In his appearance on This Week yesterday, Bob Dole made a similar, though more narrow point:

I haven't made any judgments, but it seems to me that, if the V.A. is not equipped and Department of Defense hospitals are not equipped to deal with these very complex, say, brain injuries, then they ought to go to some private hospital where they are equipped and where they've been doing it for 30, 40, 50 years.

Dole is the co-chair of President Bush's new "Wounded Warriors" commission that will look into issues with health care delivery to wounded soldiers.

]]> Reader Rich wrote to point out Bob Lonsberry's March 7 column, where he asks the same question that I asked last month: Why do Veterans have a separate and unequal healthcare delivery system? Bob's column adds another angle, pointing out that medicaid recipients are entitled to care in any facility, yet Veterans aren't.

In his appearance on This Week yesterday, Bob Dole made a similar, though more narrow point:

I haven't made any judgments, but it seems to me that, if the V.A. is not equipped and Department of Defense hospitals are not equipped to deal with these very complex, say, brain injuries, then they ought to go to some private hospital where they are equipped and where they've been doing it for 30, 40, 50 years.

Dole is the co-chair of President Bush's new "Wounded Warriors" commission that will look into issues with health care delivery to wounded soldiers.

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