{"id":36937,"date":"2013-08-04T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36937"},"modified":"2013-08-04T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T13:08:43","slug":"mtfs-cut-services-for-furloughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36937","title":{"rendered":"MTFs cut services for furloughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USAToday<\/a> reports that military treatment facilities are cutting back their treatment of soldiers and their families because of furloughs;<\/p>\n

The Pentagon’s top medical official, Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, called the cuts illogical and a significant threat.<\/p>\n

“We simply cannot continue to sustain the burdens placed on the military medical system if sequester remains the law of the land,” Woodson says. “The men and women who have fought tirelessly on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan … deserve much, much more than this.”<\/p>\n

Thomas said that by sending patients to a network of private doctors who contract with the government for services, the Pentagon will spend more money in order to compensate for the automatic spending cuts.<\/p>\n

“As we curtail … we will inevitably refer more care out to the network,” he says. “We’ll end up spending more money in the long run.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At Walter Reed, the primary care facility for troops wounded in Afghanistan, the number of operating rooms has been cut from 23 to 20 Monday through Thursday and to 10 on Friday, when most civilians take their weekly furlough day, according to a memo July 15 from Navy Capt. Philip Perdue, deputy chief of surgery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, USAToday blames Congress, disregarding the fact that sequestration came out of a White House strategy session, also disregarding that the White House has threatened to veto a Defense budget because it doesn’t squeeze veterans enough, and threatens to veto any spending bill that contains any cuts to domestic spending. When Mitt Romney mentioned sequestration last year during the presidential debates, President Obama assured the American voters that sequestration “won’t happen”, yet here we are.<\/p>\n

While we’re at it, lets’ talk about millions of dollars spent on the recent trip to Africa, the millions that will be spent on the Obama family vacation later this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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