The Salon Tape: Doctor says he was pressured not to

[malaise]

diagnose PTSD over compensation issues.

Use the children of the working class and then refuse to compensation them after they have severe mental issues.

Bush, CHeney and the Pentagon bosses should be lined up and shot for treason.

http://www.salon.com/news/special/coming_home/2009/04/08/tape/
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On the tape and in his interview with Salon, McNinch seemed to admit what countless soldiers not just at Fort Carson but across the Army have long suspected: At least in some cases, the Army tries to avoid diagnoses of PTSD. But McNinch did not directly address why the Army discourages these diagnoses, in either the interview with Salon or the tape-recorded encounter with Sgt. X.

The answer probably has to do with money. David Rudd, the chairman of Texas Tech's department of psychology and a former Army psychologist, explained that every dollar the Army spends on a soldier's benefits is a dollar lost for bullets, bombs or the soldier's incoming replacement. "Each diagnosis is an acknowledgment that psychiatric casualties are a huge price tag of this war," said Rudd. "It is easiest to dismiss these casualties because you can't see the wounds. If they change the diagnosis they can dismiss you at a substantially decreased rate."

On Tweety now.

[midnight]

1. Beautiful diagnosis of the problem with these medically incompetent tools.

It is the money factor.