18 Mar
Pentagon Admits Postponing Brain Screenings
Let’s be honest here…..it’s all about what it’s going to cost them. They don’t want to pay for services for the men and women who return from Iraq with need of medical care. God only knows how many of them there are.
The Pentagon has admitted that it delayed introducing a routine screening of troops returning from Iraq for mild brain injuries because it feared that the extent of the problem could mushroom to the scale of the Gulf War syndrome after the first Iraq war.
The head of the Pentagon’s medical assessments division has told USA Today that he wanted to avoid another controversy as potentially huge as Gulf War syndrome.
More at the Guardian
