VA Hospital Unit to Close
Just heard this on Ch 8 that the Psychiatric unit at the Canandaigua VA hospital may close next month.
This is what bothers me and seems to typify the apathy to our veterans by the Republican Party.
This unit was slated to close at some point in the future way back in 2004. We invaded Iraq in March 2003. Afganistan before than. It is now 2006.
- 20% of the veterans from Iraq and Afganistan have some sort of disability.
- The Generals (Bush listens to them right?) say troops aren’t coming home until 2010.
- 1 in 8 soliders have PTSD which as you can imagine could take a long to present since they may not seek help.
So we can’t learn anything here? After rose petals and last throes our national government chooses not to keep a VA hospital unit open to treat the increasing casualties of this war?
Thanks for nothing Randy Kuhl, Jim Walsh, Tom Reynolds and the rest of enablers of failed Republican policies.
Well said.
More VA Political Football…
The Massa campaign and local bloggers are both upset about the closing of the 8 bed acute psychiatric unit at the Canandaigua VA hospital. Since this same hospital was “saved” a couple of weeks ago, there’s good reason to question…
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