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Take Action: We Can't Underestimate the Strains of War
Call on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to continue the investigation into hundreds of military PTSD reversals.
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 9,856
Sponsored by: The Veterans Site
You've served in the military, so you know the mental toll a term of service can take on a soldier. In fact, you know better than anyone what kinds of psychological challenges a service member can experience while on duty.
But what if you came back from serving your country and your country refused to validate your wounds? Or worse, reversed your diagnosis?
Psychologists at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington have been overturning PTSD diagnoses for hundreds of veterans, in what many see as an attempt to avoid providing the costly health care associated with PTSD. Retroactively reversing these diagnoses without the proper insight not only puts veterans in danger, but it also shows a severe lack of communication between the hospital and its patients.
Ask Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to examine each reversal on a case-by-case basis and to bring consequences to those at Madigan Army Medical Center involved with them.
Dear Secretary Hagel:
Thank you for continuing to look into the cases of PTSD reversal at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. Since 2007, there have been hundreds of veteran PTSD cases overturned, and I want to know why.
Sadly, though, I think I know why. Officials have become so concerned with cutting costs they will literally stop at nothing to get out of paying health insurance claims — even those of our former service members who have given of themselves to keep us safe.
When they come back, they deserve the utmost of our gratitude. We can do that by letting them know they will be taken care of in their post-service years, no matter how severe or how mild the problem may be.
Funding for military health care is non-negotiable. These doctors don't get to arbitrarily decide who feels what or who is the most distressed.
Please continue your work in investigating these PTSD reversals and do what you can to see that all military health care facilities are taking the needs of our soldiers seriously.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Cody Cliff
May 13, 2013
Larrie Hoops
May 12, 2013
cheryl valerio
May 8, 2013
Karen Carlson
May 7, 2013
Anne Weedman
May 7, 2013
Pamela Ludwick
May 6, 2013
Nanette Lindsey
May 6, 2013
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May 5, 2013
Pat Souders
TSgt USAF retired 1972
May 4, 2013
cristina tamayo
May 4, 2013
Roxanne Nesbitt
They have fought for our freedoms we need to fight for them when they return.
May 4, 2013
Jan Blanchard
May 2, 2013
Rita Pirouet
May 2, 2013
Julie Squire
May 2, 2013
Lisa Sears
Please don't let this continue. It's a travesty, and an insult, to those who suffer.
May 1, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
Lorna Day
Apr 29, 2013
Sandra Lucas
Apr 25, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 25, 2013
Elaine Callahan
Apr 24, 2013
Sylvia Reinard
Apr 24, 2013
MICHELLE WISE
Apr 22, 2013
Linda Briggs
Apr 21, 2013
Stacey Calvert
Apr 20, 2013
Maureen Czarnocki
Apr 19, 2013
Mollie Schlesser
Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
Jim Zaccaria
Apr 18, 2013
Lauren Coleman
Apr 15, 2013
Tharon Clemens
Apr 13, 2013
rhonda lawford
Apr 13, 2013
lee garrett
unless you've "been there, done that" you have no clue what these folks and their families go through on a daily basis. as a nation, we owe so much more to them than what their getting.
Apr 11, 2013
leeanne crome
Apr 10, 2013
Kristen Morrow
Apr 10, 2013
Joetta Persall
Apr 10, 2013
Patty & Gary Schneider
Apr 8, 2013
Linda Clark
Apr 7, 2013
Leslie Poms
Apr 7, 2013
Rosalia Casals
Apr 6, 2013
Julie Jaramillo
Thank you
Apr 6, 2013
dar mathews
Apr 5, 2013
Debbie Luchka
Apr 3, 2013
Cheryl Childs
Apr 3, 2013
Deborah Creighton
They've served us, only an idiot would turn their back on a soldier that came home WOUNDED - and there are mental wounds. Ask any formerly abused woman. Words have power. Let our soldiers hear "CLAIM APPROVED"!!!!!
Apr 2, 2013
douglas wallace
please dont let it be about money if tbi can get a purple heart ptsd is legit
Apr 1, 2013
Julie K.
Apr 1, 2013
Carmen Rost
Apr 1, 2013
sharon davidson
Mar 31, 2013
Michael Travali
Mar 26, 2013
Carol Neely
