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Dole and Shalala Call Veterans Care Unacceptable
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ABC News' Alyssa Kim Reports: Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala are hoping that President Bush will make good on his promise to act upon the Wounded Warriors Commission’s recommendations for improved soldier healthcare.
"It's nonpartisan, bipartisan," Dole said. "There are problems that should be fixed and can be fixed, and we want to do it."
Dole and Shalala, co-chairs of the President's Wounded Warriors Commission, appeared in a Sunday Exclusive on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
"The current situation is simply unacceptable," Shalala said. "These young people, no matter what your position is on the war, deserve the best of care and the best opportunities in the future to get education and training, to get on with their lives."
Six of the Commission’s 35 recommendations require legislation, costing roughly half a billion dollars. Shalala said these recommendations were "double immediately," when compared to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs budget of $126 billion.
The Commission's 29-page report, however, did not include a recommendation to keep the Walter Reed Army Medical Center open. Dole expressed his hope that the facility will remain operational until a new hospital is built.
"Keep it open, full blast until the very day that they can transition to the new place," Dole said, adding that the top-notch staff at Walter Reed needed an incentive to stay. "I don't want it to close at all."
The Commission will hold its last meeting on Tuesday.
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The cost is not much, compared to the cost that we spend in Iraq. Also, its not much compared to the profit that Haliburton makes from their sole source and no-bid contract from the war in Iraq & Katrina.
Posted by: marc | Jul 31, 2007 12:45:19 AM
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