They tend to put the patient first instead of the bottom line in our experience.

Check out the movie Article 99, from 1992. It vanished quickly from the screen but was very close to a documentary about what goes on in the hospitals.

Thanks to everybody who brings this BACK to our attention. Hopefully something will be done to ease the soldiers’ suffering.

Snow said Bush “first learned of the troubling allegations regarding Walter Reed from the stories this weekend in The Washington Post. He is deeply concerned and wants any problems identified and fixed.” The spokesman said he did not know why the president, who has visited the facility many times in the past five years, had not heard about these problems before.

It seems the WH doesn’t give a fat flying fiddler’s fuck know what’s going on in their own army/city unless it hits the media. I guess two years ago Mark Benjamin and Salon didn’t get as much mainstream non-blog coverage as, say FDL does today.

Another story that is seldom making it into the news is that of the terrible hurdles that surviving spouses and their families are encountering. We did read the very recent article about the grandmother who can’t receive her dead daughter’s insurance to help rear the granddaughter but that heart-breaking story is the tip of the iceberg. As I recall, Christy posted on this subject but the major outlets have not.

At one time we were a nation of problem-solvers. Afghanistan and Iraq should have been great challenges for American ingenuity but total incompetence and greed and indifference took center stage. We can’t even get a building in decent shape to house the wounded who have suffered terrible physical and mental damage because of the same incompetence and greed and indifference. And then there’s New Orleans and points south….

Will we ever find our way back?