Valor and Squalor: PAUL KRUGMAN - Walter Reed; Attacking Iran
KRUGMAN: The horrors of Walter Reed Army Medical Centers
outpatient unit are no aberration.
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Valor and Squalor: PAUL KRUGMAN - Walter Reed
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Valor and Squalor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 5, 2007
When Salon, the online magazine, reported on mistreatment of veterans at the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center two years ago, officials simply denied that
there were any problems. And they initially tried to brush off last months
exposé in The Washington Post.
But this time, with President Bushs approval at 29 percent, Democrats in
control of Congress, and Donald Rumsfeld no longer defense secretary Robert
Gates, his successor, appears genuinely distressed at the situation the
whitewash didnt stick.
Yet even now its not clear whether the public will be told the full story,
which is that the horrors of Walter Reeds outpatient unit are no aberration.
For all its cries of support the troops, the Bush administration has treated
veterans medical care the same way it treats everything else:
nickel-and-diming the needy, protecting the incompetent and privatizing
everything it can.
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The redoubtable Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, points out that IAP Worldwide Services, a company run by two
former Halliburton executives, received a large contract to run Walter Reed
under suspicious circumstances: the Army reversed the results of an audit
concluding that government employees could do the job more cheaply.
And Mr. Waxman, who will be holding a hearing on the issue today, appears to
have solid evidence, including an internal Walter Reed memo from last year,
that the prospect of privatization led to a FEMA-type exodus of skilled
personnel.
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