Thanks to congress wounded do without at military hospitals

House GOP voted to repeal Obamacare for 40th time this week. Now they are threatening to shut down the government if they do not get their own way. Didn't matter to them the people of this country voted for what the majority wanted since the majority of the whole nation votes for President and districts vote for their Senators and Representatives in the House. While they are wasting time on ending health insurance reform they are avoiding doing the right thing for the sake of the wounded they created by sending troops into Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing matters to these people anymore if it does not hit them where they live.

Case in point is when the air traffic controllers and the TSA were holding up flights they had to take. It was a matter of a couple of days before they ended that trouble. When it comes to the troops wounded in our name, they stick two fingers in their ears and hold the middle on straight up in the air.

Military hospitals shrinking services to meet spending cuts
USA TODAY
Gregg Zoroya
August 3, 2013

Because of staff furloughs, patients are asked to practice more patience in getting health care needs met.

Patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and other premier military hospitals are being sent to private doctors and having surgery and other treatment delayed because of furloughs to medical personnel, according to interviews and internal documents.

"Please show (patients) the utmost understanding and care while we are asking them to accept longer wait times and in some cases, curtailed or limited services," Rear Adm. Alton Stocks, hospital commander, told staff in a July 12 message.

A "colleagues" memo issued in recent days says inpatient beds are in "critically short supply" because of furloughs of civilian staff triggered by federal spending cuts known as sequestration.

The memo encourages "dispositions/discharges as soon as possible." Hospital spokesperson Sandy Dean explained this direction, saying, "We are are encouraging health care providers to be more efficient when handling their paperwork instead of writing discharge orders later in the day ... no patient has been or will be discharged before it is medically appropriate."

With cases of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems at an all-time high, Dean says civilian caregivers in the hospital's in-patient mental health section are furloughed, reducing beds there from 28 to 22.
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PS or BS, Congress gets tax payer funded health insurance!