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The Snake Dept. is supposed to provide 0bama care for US citizens overseas?
“former military contractors working overseas”? Are we supposed to provide them health care through the state dept? I don’t understand what the expectation was here.
If he was working as a private contractor, shouldn’t his employer be responsible for medical care?
I learned a very valuable lesson in 1994 when I went to Bosnia on a White House fact finding mission. I was technically a contractor therefore not protected under the Laws of Land Warfare, not a combatant, and fell under the State Department for support since the U.S. military was not yet deployed.
In that situation, you are on your own and if you get into a gun fight or get sick, tough luck. When I got back, I decided that my days in a combat zone were over. The inability to defend myself or to be able to count on any assistance from the government that sent me there was enough to make that my last patrol.
Not right but welcome to the world. This is the same thing we have been experiencing now for several years from our clients. For decades in the past contractors without a local large presence in expat locations were part of the host company medical, triage, and emergency evacuation process. No more. We have to charge them a higher rate to inefficiently provide services for our people and in so doing can’t compete with companies who do not do the same.
Hippocratic Oath? Anyone?
State Department: Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama.
Need I say anything more?