Female Veterans Fight for Healthcare

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Even if thy get the care it isnt adquate and when they complain they are viewed as trouble makers. I have heard horror stories of women,s health care shut down in Vegas on women veterans who are fighting for thier rights to quality health care concerning PTSD_MST_COMBAT

Debra Filter-Dionne of NV 3:44PM September 06, 2010

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fHEtyG 3:13PM January 04, 2010

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elvyhaygo of DC 11:04AM November 04, 2009

HOW can you even consider making a profit from soldiers who have already sacrifed so much.If all Americans were on the single payer healthcare plan, veterans could obtain the care any where in the country and its territories.ACCESS would improve and family and friends would be more available for sustenance,support, andsocializing. All of these factors are critical to recovery and returning home.

JANE TUTINO of VA 5:32PM August 08, 2009

www.graceafterfire.org - an FREE online community for female vets to anonymously reach out to others, gather resources and address issues and concerns that have gone unnoticed for so long.
As a female vet suffering from PTSD and the transition from Iraq to home, GAF has been a blessing. I highly recoomend it to other women vets, their family and their friends...

Serena of TX 8:57PM August 04, 2009

If a woman goes to get help because she was sexually assualted, she shouldn't have to "prove" anything. What if the assualt occured when she was an E-3 and now she's a E-8? Does the fact that she is finally comfortable telling someone about it preclude her from getting help? It shouldn't. I know plenty of women who have been sexually assualted and didn't want to report it for fear of getting a bad reputation, for her superiors looking down on her, for being accused of "changing" her mind mid act, and the list goes on and on. And yes, I include myself in that statement. If antyhing, the VA should want everyone, regardless of gender to get the help they need before they come in with alcohol dependency issues or other health issues that arise from not getting mental help in the first place!

Jane Smith of CA 3:10AM August 04, 2009

This is atragic shameful stste of affairs. We expected better behavior from our elected officials.
Would any of them want this kind of treatment for their female vets? I think not!!
We Americans want fair treatment for all!! They ALL put their lives at risk regardless of what the regulations state.
Shame on us all for allowing such shabby disgraceful conditions
to be.

Marilea Hoffmann of OK 8:37PM August 03, 2009

The only way to make sure that all veterans, male and female get
the treament they deserve is for them to hold the VA and government's feet to the fire.
The Vietnam veterans were deliberately betrayed by the World War II generation of veterans. They received their hard-earned benefits ONLY after THEY bore down, pushed back, and fought to get them.
A lesson for ALL Americans is that if you want anything you must fight and put forth the effort to get it. I fear that this generation of veterans will, like the Vietnam veterans, learn the hard way and wait too long, too late before pushing back.
Such is life, I suppose.
Al of PA, don't even begin to use this issue to push your Neo-Con, anti-healthcare agenda. Healthcare in today's America is broken, and that is no accident. Corporate greed, CEOs, and their Conservative cheerleaders are happy to maintain the status quo.

EB in PA of PA 6:46AM August 03, 2009

Yes, the VA doesn't provide adequate service for female vets. That's because the VA doesn't provide adequate service for ANYONE.
True, the VA won't treat PTSD caused by or related to sexual assault without proof the assault occured. Yes, that proof is hard to provide. But sexual assault is not only a problem for female servicemembers, but for males as well, and the chain of command has a vested interest in making sure ALL such claims are determined to be: (a) Malicious false accusations that can be used to further the presumtion that accusations are false and malicious. (b) Honest mistakes, mostly on the part of the complaniant. or (c) A reason to punish or prosecute some other undesirable element in their same chain.
Let's fight for fair treatment of everybody, then look for unfair treatment of groups.

DCS of FL 12:18PM August 01, 2009

This is just more proof of how government run helathcare DOES NOT WORK!! If this were the private sector the Female vets would alread have excellent care because someone would have seen a demmand for service and then tured a profit by providing that servie for the female vets. They would also have created new jobs in the process. Both of which the public sector is incapable of.
THIS IS WHAT GOVERNEMNT RUN SINGLE PAYER HELATHCARE LEADS TO!!!

Al of PA 5:11AM August 01, 2009