As we approach the end of our
advocacy in Washington on
the Fort McClellan contamination
matter, some of us will continue
to tie up the loose ends
in Washington on the subject
of Patient Class Reform.

For those who have not been
following this saga very well,
what the federal system did
to those of us from Fort McClellan
was shameful and disgusting.

They first refused to give
us Patient Class recognition
for Fort McClellan service,
even though the entire surrounding
town of civilians received full
recognition from the Center
For Disease Control. Then
they turned around and played
this stupid mind-game of
requiring US the
medical patients, to go out and
find or locate all the other Fort
McClellan Veterans around the
country who were also sick, then
screen them,[ i.e. ask them general
questions about their health]
and then submit their names
and contact information to the
VA "outreach" office, so they
could then us this first group
as a verification to then
go out and do the rest of the
nationwide notification to
all the rest of the hundreds
upon thousands of other Fort
McClellan Veterans.

Patient Class recognition absolutely
does need to change at the VA.
I have frankly never heard of
anything so incredibily dumb
in my entire life! Hundreds of
high paying income jobs in this
VA, and not one fool in the
system is charged with the duty
to do Patient Class recognition.
Give me a Freakin BREAK !!

The VA absolutely does need
to open a separate office,
the Office Of Patient Class
Review. That office would be
open upon a simple application
by all Veterans who believe
themselves to be in a common
incident class whether it's combat
or accident. Also, it would
have a tracking system tied
to the VA Comp Rating System
computers to find and identify
Veteran patients who are a part
of a common incident class.

This VA system has Piddled and
Diddled Veterans into early
graves, from sea to shining
sea, so it's time now to
throw the old out, and usher
in the new.

The old ideas of "legislating"
solutions to Veteran medical
patients now has to be the
focus of protest and opposition
by all Veterans and Advocates.
Tell them we won't take it anymore.

No more baloney with "health
registery" laws and all that:
they are a HOSPITAL SYSTEM and
they need to start acting like one.
And if patient assistance and
patient location and identification
is not a part of that system,
then WHAT THE HELL IS ???

In the course of your Advocacy
into Washington now, by all means
include it in your Mad As Hell
speech, that Patient Recognition
in the VA system is an all out
disaster and we are not going
to take it anymore. We want
REFORM now !!!