Injured US Soldiers' Being Denied Treatment & Benefits

UPI Investigative Reporter, Mark Benjamin states in a story breaking this week, about injured and wounded Army & National Guard Reservists at Fort Stewart, Georgia living in "squalor", waiting months for access to medical care and being denied treatment! (He will appear on several television programs beginning this week).

Some 600 Soldiers reveal that they are being told that their conditions are not related to serving in the Iraq War, but instead to "pre-existing conditions"!

Many have requested immediate discharge, but leaving with only 20% of their "benefits" and signing "waivers" in order to simply get out and be able to obtain medical care on their own.

American Injured Workers? Looks as if we are not alone in the plight after all. Seems as though some of these USA soldiers are even being called fakes and malingerers. Crushed backs, knees, bodies and all.

God Bless The USA....But at what cost?

I was injured in the Army. I had a broken foot and neck; it took the army 8 months to find it. Truly pathetic for the United States Of America.

medical care in the military is on their terms always has been.
medication is free as long as you are prescribed something that the pharmacy caries.

gulf war...all those strange afflictions afterwards...thought biological etc.....
diet soda allowed to get hot and the nutra sweet turning poisonous. supplied soda not bottled water. heat and nutra sweet do not mix

no biologicla war fare but the real cause is never widely reported.

you never know whats up with those reports, just like with WC fraud, they never show the person loosing everything and contemplating suicide, just the 5% that abuse.

wait for the whole story

Big Money & Politics = No "whole story." They will utilize any method necessary in order to.... discredit.

Politics.....don't forget to vote!!!!!

It has always been that way. My father was receiving care in a VA hospital, he was in Vietnam. So he is in a hospital in 1991 and was given the wrong medication and died. I thought you know he fights for our country, comes home and is not protected at home. The care he received in there prior to dieing was horrid! VA hospitals are not taking care of the ones receiving care either, it is like going to a work comp hospital, all the care they give is half <FONT COLOR="ff0000">•••</FONT>.

fyi
people die from human mistakes in civilain hospitals too.
but personally having experienced both sides of the coin, there is a difference, civilian is better

just my input about the va and wc they go hand and hand.you wait months for medical care and benifets that you are entitled too . with the va it could be years, before you hear anything ,they will lose your medical records just to cover themselves, it is cheaper for you to die then these so called companies to give you the medical care you need .i was reinjured in march dr. that i was seeing dismissed it and refused to even document that i was in pain. lawyers are no help . was told just to go find a job ,as of know the pain that was in my wristhas progressed into my shoulder at times i have no feelings in my fingers and hand .calling the adjuster doesnt help all you get is voice mail and sh doesnt return your calls. it a sad world we live in were the disabled lose their rights ,as far as we the goverment allow the severly disable to be starved and dehydrated to death, for it is cheaper for everyone.

11:42 your right civillian is better, there is caps on suing a VA hospital, it is government! My father told the nurse it was the wrong amount and she made him take it anyway. Then they left him in there with no monitering for 6 hours to grow lethargic and choke to death on his vomit. Then to cover there mistake they told us he died of cardiac arrest, no mistake was made. They came clean two months later.

rickand kryss, doesnt surprise me my fiance is a disabled vet . dr there try to give him all kinds of medications with out checking what he is already on to all carry a pdr . it may save your life or a love one . i check every new med that these quacks try to give him . i caught several mistakes .shame on them. va will cover there tracks and even lose medical files too .i know they lost med files when he was medically discharged took 5 yrs to get him 100 percent disabled. as a injured worker myself i have to battles to fight one with comp and one with the va . boy am i tired .