Please forgive me if I seem a bit angry in this, the season of the greatest Christian Sacrifice, Easter, but the article quoted below brought to mind a number of other travesties concerning "Our Troops."
what does 'support' mean?
Paying for the flag we give their next of kin?
[I]nsurance coverage for treatment of brain trauma injuries is
spotty and unpredictable.
One key therapy is not offered to troops, a
glaring deficiency in military health care that investigative outlet Pro
Publica has been persistently exposing for months.
Now Rep. Giffords'
office is making the case for brain trauma rehab to be included in the
health-reform law, setting up the possibility that Giffords'
injury—already a human interest story—could become a political one as
well. . . .
[I]n the important next phase of Giffords’ recovery—months of
intensive rehabilitation aimed at maximizing her quality of
life—Giffords is receiving a level of care unattainable by thousands of
Americans who have been wounded on the actual battlefield. That’s
because the costly treatment Giffords is receiving at The Institute for
Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial-Herman is being paid for by the
federal government, but such care for U.S. troops is not.
... Most military personnel ... are covered by an insurance plan
called TRICARE, which does not cover key elements of cognitive
rehabilitation therapy. As revealed in a series of investigative reports
by the non-profit news enterprise,
ProPublica,
TRICARE claims that the benefits of cognitive rehabilitation therapy
are not well enough established to warrant providing it to troops.
TRICARE bases this assertion on the findings of a study commissioned by
TRICARE itself, and which ProPublica’s reporting has found to be “deeply
flawed.”
