Thursday, November 22, 2007
Vet Turned Down at Veterans Hospital
Now in today's society the war is a huge conflict still to this day, everyone knows this but I was surprised when I read the article "VA hospital turned away suicidal vet, family," says http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/03/va-hospital-turned-away-suicidal-vet.html because I would never think that a war veteran would be turned down for medical assistance. After Marine Jonathan Schulze was rejected by a Minnesota VA hospital when he needed urgent treatment. He had post traumatic stress after being stationed in Iraq. He became suicidal and had been placed on several drugs to help him treat his depression. After Jonathan four days after Johnathan had been turned down from the hospital he tried to commit suicide. This is just another story how no one in America should be turned down for health care.
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i totally agree that this guy, whom served our country, and was willing to place his life on the line, should be provided with the best care any doctor could have provided him. Now on the flip side, i do not think everyone should just be handed health care. I work 70 to 80 hours a week, and they take quite the handsome sum of money from me every year in taxes. Why should someone who does not want to work, be afforded health care off the money the government takes from me for working all those hours!?!?! Everyone can get a job of some sort, last time i checked McDonalds pays a nice hourly wage, with benefits. Every retail outlet is looking for people whom will take a box and move it from a truck, into their warehouse's. Many of these companies now offer health care to PART TIME EMPLOYEES!!! Get a job, be a productive member of society and of the economy, and then you get health care. Not on someone else's dollar. I understand some people have reason's not to work, but being lazy, not wanting to, or thinking a job is not good enough for you, does not constitute you the same rights as hard working people.
RM
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