The Barn Door
________________Here we are seven years into the Phony War on Terror (PWOT©) and the Department of Defense is giving $300 million to study Traumatic Brain Injury, the signature wound of this war. A RAND Corp. study released in April estimates "300,000 current or former combat troops have PTSD or depression, and up to 320,000 may have suffered a brain injury (Troops' Stress, Trauma Studied.)"
This outlay is being hailed as a magnanimous gesture. "Gregory O'Shanick, national medical director for the Brain Injury Association of America, says the funding initiative is 'without a doubt … an all-time high' for spending by the government on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)."
My -- $300 Million. The amount spent to run about 18 hours of the Iraq war; less than a day. A grandiloquent gesture, indeed.
The results of these tests may be available in five years. This is called operating behind the power curve. No wonder we can't find Osama bin Laden. We always close the barn door after the horse is out.
A day late and a dollar short.
This outlay is being hailed as a magnanimous gesture. "Gregory O'Shanick, national medical director for the Brain Injury Association of America, says the funding initiative is 'without a doubt … an all-time high' for spending by the government on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)."
My -- $300 Million. The amount spent to run about 18 hours of the Iraq war; less than a day. A grandiloquent gesture, indeed.
The results of these tests may be available in five years. This is called operating behind the power curve. No wonder we can't find Osama bin Laden. We always close the barn door after the horse is out.
A day late and a dollar short.
Labels: $300 million pentagon tbi study, ptsd study, tbi study
posted by rangeragainstwar at 5:40 PM
6 Comments:
They're feeding Big Pharma...and that's all. Billions of dollars have been paid and will be paid to Big Pharma via the Pentagon and the V.A. The bastards at Ft. Stewart pumped me full of drugs, accused me of "faking a mental lapse"...I finally secured an honorable discharge on medical grounds...I no longer subscribe to the horror of the V.A.
MC, i certainly hope you rec'd a retirement or at least DVA SC disability. If not you should address this with a claim. The DVA drug system imo is better than Tricare IF one is SC. It's hard to get praise for the DVA out of my mouth. jim
if you want to discuss this privately write at jim-at-rangeragainstwar-dot com. all discussions are private on this venue. I have some experience fighting this crummy system and will share info, ppresently i'm in a pay complaint re. my crsc. jim
Thanks Jim. I was rated 100% SC disabled and receive "appropriate" benefits. I was only going on about the horror of psychotropics and forced "therapy", and the obscene amounts of money paid to the drug companies (often for medications which are still considered experimental). I have a VFW rep who helps me out quite a bit; i.e. he helped secure DOD payment for a couple of third-party veterans "therapy" groups I attend.
"Crummy system"...you hit the nail on the head. Again, Jim, thank you.
mad Celt, under the new law you may be in line for CRSC or crdp if you are taking dva sc payments in lieu of retirement pay. Pls check. jim
WOW! A whole $1000 per patient! What kind of traumatic brain injury care does that get you these days?
Terrible,
As the old army quip goes- nothing is too good for the American soldier, and that's what we always get. jim
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