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Military medical care laws being second-guessed

It's not doing military members any favor to reverse Feres and make them enter the tort claim lottery, instead of using the no-fault system we have today.

Funny how the writer somehow forgot to mention that all these injuries are considered service-connected disabilities, and the service members are cared for and compensated for them.

How will that change under the proposal? Is Congress willing to pay twice for these injuries? Seems doubtful. So, the end result will be casting off injured service members, and requiring them to enrich some trial lawyer in order to get any compensation. If they get a good one, OK. If not, they're just out of luck.

Good for trial lawyers. Bad for Soldiers.

What a reform!

The feres doctrine needs to be overturned completely. My son Michael Fremer was killed at Fort Polk, La on 2/13/08 after Training was completed. The Army has admitted his death was due to Army Negligence. But the Army is exempt from Liability due to the Feres doctrine. I have been in contact with others parents of soldiers who have sad similar stories. It seems the Army does not care and views the soldiers as expendable. The Army needs to be held Accountable for Negligence. Please overturn the Feres Doctrine!

Thanks,

Ed Fremer

I am a soldier, my life has been completely destroyed by negligence by the Army. They Army and the VA try to compensate as low as they possibly can. Their version of taking care of their own is pitiful and appalling.

We have created a nation that is Grateful for our military and we will throw parades for them, as long as we don't have to hear about the hurt ones that need care.

I too am a member of Rep. Jim Matheson district, I am grateful that he is distressed... how about you go and do something about it instead of letting your own suffer. Rep. Matheson - If you choose to let the wrong continue, then you are just as guilty as those who are committing the neglect.

Again and again we find that illegal aliens are given preferred status over US citizens This situation is prevalent at all levels of government in these United States. To satisfy the cheap labor demands of greedy, anti-American corporations and businesses, politicians from both parties fall all over themselves seeking various ways to create a free market for labor here in the United States. They have created a free market for products by shipping jobs overseas to low wage countries, and now they want the same thing in the US for those jobs that can't easily be done overseas. Creating ever lower wages in the US by various visa programs for immigrants, and doing nothing that is effective about illegal aliens.

Our politicians don't want a high wage economy, they want a low wage high profit economy. A prime example is the Auto company bailout. There were no calls for higher wages for the foreign company auto workers, only calls for lower wages for US auto workers. Show me a single country with a low wage economy and a high quality of life for it citizens. There is none!