Yup! Reason PTS Was Ignored for Some Forty Years

"encouraged behavioral health professionals to consider the long-term costs to taxpayers of a PTSD diagnosis"

After it was finally recognized by us Vietnam veterans and concerned and listening to us civilians, that which always existed and not only related to war theaters and soldiers, though as to civilians that is only still slowly coming.

PTSD…And Cash

February 23, 2012 - The Army removed Colonel Dallas Homas, commander of Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state, on Tuesday from his post because of an investigation into whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses were reversed solely to reduce medical costs on his watch.

An ombudsman’s investigation last fall shows that officials from Madigan’s forensic psychiatry team — a group created in October 2008 to review the behavioral health diagnoses of soldiers being considered for medical retirement due to PTSD — encouraged behavioral health professionals to consider the long-term costs to taxpayers of a PTSD diagnosis. A memo from that probe quoted a member of the forensic psychiatric team lecturing about how a PTSD diagnosis could result in a soldier earning $1.5 million in benefits over a lifetime, and how the hospital should be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. What’s going on here?

While I agree that every government institution should be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, driving such alleged cost-cutting initiatives down to the very physicians that are charged with taking care of our nation’s service members is unfair — to both the soldier and the physician. It’s also unwise. How can anyone expect a doctor to serve two conflicting goals?

Medical professionals’ primary responsibility should be the well-being of their patients, not the government’s bottom line. Just like the separation of church and state, there should be a bright line between physician care and financial mandates. The focus of medical professionals should be providing the best possible care to their patients. Period. read more>>>

And the flag waving cheering on war 'patriots', with their cheep symbols and empty words of support ignored more then that and always do, for the same reason, like Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, Homeless Veterans and so much more, during and after the few sent come home to relive among the great masses!

And the past decade has been even more blatant in the false support and total lack of Sacrifice by the population served, with two wars and multiple tours in both for many, then the always underfunded VA over the previous decades!