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Army vet billed $3,000 for war wounds

 
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BuffaloJack
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:18 am    Post subject: Army vet billed $3,000 for war wounds Reply with quote
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Army vet billed $3,000 for war wounds
(CNN) -- Erik Roberts, an Army sergeant who was wounded in Iraq, underwent his 13th surgery recently to save his right leg from amputation. Imagine his shock when he got a bill for $3,000 for his treatment.
"I just thought it was bull---- that I'm getting billed for being wounded in Iraq doing my job. I always put the mission first, and now that I was wounded in Iraq, they're sending me bills," he said.
"I put my life on the line and I was wounded in combat, and I came back and they're not going to take care of my medical bills?"
It's a level of outrage shared by his mother, as well as the doctor who performed the surgery.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/26/wounded.warrior/index.html

More "Hope and Change" from the socialists.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
As much as I would like to blame the current administration on for this one, its clearly and unfortunately just another VA screw up.

Whatever incompetent horse doctor they have at the Ohio VA needs to be hung up by the short hairs, removed from practice, and placed where his/her talents are more applicable - a sewage treatment plant for a hog farm comes to mind.

Yes, there should be outrage over the unpaid bills but frankly there should be a lot more outrage and intervention over the malpractice that caused it in the first place.
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