User profile: unklerob

Did this investigation do any research within the Veteran Affairs (VA) health system? I have been trying to bring this problem up with VA officials for 4 years to point out there is a direct link between these numerous prescriptions and the increasing rates of suicides. Some health officials and doctors are not getting to the actual problems with patients in a timely mannner, instead, they substitute health care with pain medications instead of actually treating the problems of the patient.

Veterans are the most overlooked and under-appreciated people in American society! Politicians are campaigning for free health-care but America doesn't even provide adaquate health-care for its veterans, the defenders of this country, but here America is again trying to fix a problem and ignoring the bigger problem. This is bigger then just PTSD.

Politicians are acting like they are doing veterans a favor by passing laws that should have been in place long before the decesion to go into any war let alone a senseless one such as the one we are now fighting. Bush and many others have taken this war and opportunity as a time to line their pockets at the cost of American lives and masked it in the smoke and mirrors of politics. Troops have to fight our government and the VA heath-care system equally as hard as the war we are currently in just to receive benefits that have been earned at the personal cost of the individual.

The VA hides behind buracracy of health-care being divided into two seperate areas of interest, benefits and compensation. The two sides do not communicate with the interest of the veterans, the system works backwards in an effort to get veterans to give up on benefits so the VA doesn't have to pay out benefits.

Our government can fund nearly a half a billion dollars to do research on Mars but the same government and its employees tell the public there is not enough money to do research on post-tramatic stress syndrome for our troops?

America is listening to the news and our politicians argue about free health-care for all Americans but we as veterans can't even get heath-care we have "earned" by serving this this ungrateful government!

R.G. Jennings II

They don't have the time to do the research for PTSD? This disorder is not new and maybe someone over there next to Bush should have slapped his hand before he took it upon himself to lie to the world and declare a war that has yet to produce anything worth the American and allied troops that have lost their lives because of America's greed and the greed of the President of this downward spiraling nation. It is a shame that our troops have to come home and fight with the same administration that sent them into this mess only to be told that their condition is unwarranted.

Robert G. Jennings II