So let me get this straight. Folks in the US Army can get face lifts, breast enlargements, and nose jobs on my dime?
What type of sick crap is this?
According to the CNN article, plastic surgeries are done by military doctors so they’ll have “someone to practice on”.
Hmmm.
If the government doesn’t want to use my money for a military woman to terminate a pregnancy (except in cases where the life of the mother is in danger) fine. I *almost* don’t have a problem with that. But, I damn sho have a problem with my dough being used for this bovine excrement.
Maybe, just maybe, there’s something missing from this story. If so, please enlighten me.
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I don’t think there is more. I read this yesterday and I think it is what it is–service men and women can get breast enlargements and liposuction on our dime.
If they really need practice let them work on people that can’t afford medical coverage.
I completely agree with Terry. There are PLENTY of folk out here who wouldn’t mind getting some free or discounted plastic surgery.
I was always the one who would say, “This country was built on the backs of my ancestors so HELL NO I ain’t going nowhere.” Funny how I find myself doing a 180 these days. “Get me the HELL outta here!”
I’m not even talking about plastic surgery. There are plenty of parents that can’t take sick children to a doctor. Screw the plastic surgery–that’s all superficial bullshit anyway. Have them look after people that can’t afford medical care any other way.
There are plenty of women who don’t have healthcare that could use a doctor visit. Or a mammorgram or pap test.
they need to go and don’t cause they can’t afford it.
i’d rather my taxes go to these people than boob jobs and lipsuctions for soldiers.
Military doctors are usually straight out of med school and have to basically practice on GIs. The military is offering this to its members who are relatively whole, so that the doctors will have some experience when providing plastic surgery to those who are not whole, i.e. those who are disfigured in combat.
BTW, most military members cannot afford med insurance either. The ‘free’ military medical establishment is their only recourse.
“Military doctors are usually straight out of med school and have to basically practice on GIs.”
Why must they practice on GIs?
Who else are they going to practice on? They work for the military, it’s their job to treat soldiers.
You do want a doc with some experience making you a new face if you need it.
I can understand it being a necessity in treating a wound… but we are talking about liposuction and breast enlargements…
Read this: http://tinyurl.com/43erx - and from: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2002/02/25/edlt0225.htm: “There is at present an extreme shortage of reserve military physicians, and doctors wanting to combine patriotic and humanitarian service may want to consider this option. There are reserve military medical units in most metropolitan areas.” - Today, many doctors may be intelligent enough to know that in situations of physical danger or threat, yes, mental presence may be good … but physical absence may be better. After all, Bush’s line ‘if you are not for us,you are against us’ has never ever been validated or proven, and medicine is largely scientific. How to convince doctors. In addition, even the remotest allegation of ‘weird things’ happening to people that later end up killed are enough information to make you very, very seriously doubt how good an idea it is to join the army. The amount of people that shmooze with the idea to solve conflicts violently, the bore, the constraints, the physical conditions, being cut off from all that is important on a more peaceful scale all are aspects to consider. Sure, army service can be a real ’school for life’, but it can be a quite weird one that can give you mental flashbacks and mental trips you wouldn’t have dreamt of beforehand. Army people today may have to *really* come up with killer incentives to attract the current generation’s doctors; and knowing that, maybe what we are looking at here, *are* such killer incentives. It is probably a sign of desperation.
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Poor George W. Bush! (see url)
SCNR!
Don - A friend sent something similar to this to me. If you listen to Bush talk (at least on soundbites…and who knows how much you can trust those) clearly something is up.
re: don’s comment and the url to the Capitol Blue. if this is true, i don’t think i’m gonna be sleeping very well.
(as if if was sleeping well anyway.)
i mean…holy shit.
ashcroft???
I don’t know if y’all out of the USA folks know it, but Ashcroft was running for the Senate from Missouri and his opponent (Carnahan) died in a plane crash. The voters still voted for Carnahan dead, than Ashcroft living.
As someone else said, it’s the doctors’ job. The doctors are in the military also.
Kyla - Ashcroft was leading the polls when Carnahan died. He stopped campaigning after his death and couldn’t regain momentum when the sympathy candidate was added to the ballot. Add to it potential voter fraud that makes Florida look like a model system and of course he lost.
As far as plastic surgery goes, I wonder how similiar these procedures are to the repairs that are necessary when someone has been injured by an exploding object.