VoteVets.org On Hardball Regarding PTSD Diagnosis

VoteVets.org's Brian McGough, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, joins Mark Benjamin of Salon on Hardball to discuss a bombshell story regarding doctors under pressure to not grant proper PTSD diagnoses to troops and veterans.

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• VoteVets
• Troops
• Veterans
• PTSD
• Anxiety Disorder
• Adjustment Disorder
• Army
• Mental Care
• Department of Defense
• DOD
• VA

[JOHNNYSschool]

that happend to me too... the army docters said ptsd and the meb said ajustment disorder

[whitewolfsarctic]

Modern society based Healthcare on Pathology, the study of persuading the audience to believe the realism of fiction.

Modern healthcare is corrupt because of Pathology.

[grazon]

"Just going over seas can effect you"

True but there's a difference between serving overseas in Japan and serving overseas in Saudi Arabia.

[911insidejob81]

doctors under pressure to not grant proper PTSD diagnoses to troops and veterans.

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unbelievable!!!

[Pleblian]

Well, to be fair the military, even in peace time, does put you in some pretty hazardous situations. Just going over seas can effect you, medically, where you won't find out until later on in life. But I think giving vets a private health care card that's subsidized at a lower cost to the vet is better than funneling them through a bureaucracy.

[grazon]

I've always found it strange that guys who weren't hurt while in the service and were never even near a warzone get free medical treatment for life.

[irishlight42]

It's weird because I've heard about the stuff McGough is talking about it, and know that's going on, and at the same time I've had friends in the army and USMC who have talked a lot about soldiers and marines getting diagnosed by the DoD with PTSD for bullshit and not actually having it.

[Pleblian]

McGough is right, the VA is terrible, you're left to fend for yourself while being treated like shit in the process.

The way I see it, the VA hospitals are saturated with all the elderly republicans who served two years in the reserves but act like they were on the front lines in WW2 (just ask them) but have no problem absorbing all the social benefits the government can give them.