I'm not sure why you are hollerin' at me. I answered DakotaRed's question as to why it's in the news all of the sudden. That's all.
As far as letting them sweep it under the rug--not with me they don't. I have been fighting with TriCare and military hospitals since my first wonderful induction into the world of the military medicine. That would be giving birth to my youngest in a hallway at Camp Pendleton after being shoved out there and told I was not in labor (it was my third, I think I may have known) and to stop complaining; right up to my last lovely encounter, when my 8 year old had a 102.4 fever, and I was sent to urgent care (no full-service clinic here in lovely Yuma) only to be told that TriCare hadn't gotten around to paying them (4 months after my last visit) so I was more than welcome to go spend 10 hours in the local emergency room, where I was free to wait with a very sick child while all the illegal immigrants with no insurance got to go whizzing on through. There are plenty of nightmarish encounters in between.
I don't blame the doctors (well, except one, but this is too public a forum to get into that), I blame the beaurocracy. And I'm sorry, but all the newspaper exposes in the world isn't going to change it. It may change WRAMC (and rightfully, it should), but it will fade from the public eye, Britney will have another breakdown and distract the general American public and things will go back to business as usual in no time. Sadly enough, when it doesn't fit the mainstream agenda, the majority of the public flat out doesn't give a crap. It's not a PC enough cause. That in no way refers to anyone here. I know we all care, but we aren't in charge anymore.
"And I'm sorry, but all the newspaper exposes in the world isn't going to change it."
I can absolutely GUARANTEE you that you are dead wrong on that point. Congressmen and women don't give a darn about ANY issue until they think it might become a re-election issue. Taking the opportunity to write or call them DOES work..
OK, not very well in some instances, but throwing one's hands up in despair is counter-productive. Also speaking from experience, one person CAN make a difference. THIS is one of those times to act...while it's fresh in people's minds. You will not win every skirmish..but, the battle goes to those with the fortitude to win and the stamina to keep hammering away at the problems UNTIL they are solved...
end of sermon.