GOP Rep. Joe Donnelly privatizes TBI treatment?

Bill offers private TBI treatment - for some

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 13, 2007 19:33:14 EST

An Indiana lawmaker is claiming victory for getting a provision included in the 2008 defense authorization bill that could make it possible for troops and veterans with traumatic brain injury to be treated by private-sector specialists.

However, the bill does not guarantee that option, said veterans’ advocate Meredith Beck of the nonprofit Wounded Warriors Project.

The provision allows the Defense Department to determine if private care is warranted by medical necessity, which leaves room for interpretation.

“We do not know how this may or may not be used,” said Beck, national legislative director of the group.
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Why would he think this was a good idea? Why does it always seem the GOP want to deny the problem and pass it off to someone else? Do they really hate the government that much? Face it. When they had the chance to take care of the wounded and give them the best care they deserved, they held hearings on other things instead of why they were not being taken care of. They didn't want to deal with any of this. Now, even after the voters told them they were doing a pissy job, they come up with letting traumatic brain injured soldiers go to private doctors? And the Democrats are just as bad for thinking this is a good idea! Does anyone in Washington have a clue what is going on and what needs to be done with any of these issues while lives are on the line?