Female Veterans Fight for Healthcare
The VA starts to adjust a system designed for a male military
By Amanda Ruggeri
As debate heats up over healthcare reform, military veterans are fighting for another kind of improvement: the expansion of health services for female vets.
Nearly 8 percent of the veteran population is female. But the Department of Veterans Affairs' health system was designed for a male military, and it shows. A Government Accountability Office report released this month found that two of 19 facilities audited did not offer even basic gender-specific services like cervical cancer screenings, and none fully complied with the VA's policy on privacy for female veterans. Overall, "none of the facilities had fully implemented VA policies pertaining to women veterans' healthcare," the report said. Critics say those shortfalls have deterred women from using the system. And statistics bear that out. While 22 percent of male veterans use VA healthcare, 15 percent of women do..........
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2 comments:
We really are stupid, aren't we?
I mean, there is not other logical explanation, is there?
If I try to come up with something that even tries to explain this, my head starts to tremor, like it might explode. So I can only come up with "stupid."
That is all, proceed with your evening.
hell MEN aren't getting the care they need in a lot of cases. i can't even imagine about the women
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