Posted on Sep 15, 2016
What Trump Got Wrong About Veterans Suffering From Chronic Pain
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I support Trump over Killery, but before he makes a speech about something like Veteran Suicide, he needs to read up on it so he's not cuaught off guard with a question.
Task & Purpose spoke with Rachel Fredericks, whose question to Donald Trump during the recent Commander-in-Chief Forum raised concerns about his knowledge of veterans suicide.
On Sept. 7, during the Commander-in-Chief Forum in New York, a woman in the audience asked Donald Trump what he’d do as president to “stop 20 veterans a day from killing themselves.” That woman was Rachel Fredericks, a Marine Corps veteran who was injured in training while serving as an aviation operations specialist and now helps other veterans file disability claims with the VA as an employee of Disabled American Veterans.
Task & Purpose spoke with Rachel Fredericks, whose question to Donald Trump during the recent Commander-in-Chief Forum raised concerns about his knowledge of veterans suicide.
On Sept. 7, during the Commander-in-Chief Forum in New York, a woman in the audience asked Donald Trump what he’d do as president to “stop 20 veterans a day from killing themselves.” That woman was Rachel Fredericks, a Marine Corps veteran who was injured in training while serving as an aviation operations specialist and now helps other veterans file disability claims with the VA as an employee of Disabled American Veterans.
What Trump Got Wrong About Veterans Suffering From Chronic Pain
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Donald Trump
Suicide
Task & Purpose
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True. It's much more than making the VA more efficient or "good." It's about actually having an actionable plan that will help reduce suicides among veterans.
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I think making it efficient would go a long way. A lot of Veterans feel abandoned by the system, making them feel worthless. The other problem I've seen, and this may be only local as I'm not experienced with other VAs, is the counseling is substandard. In many cases using techniques no longer supported by the APA, some of the Veterans have been sent "out on the economy" and they later found out the counselor/psychologist wasn't qualified to practice in the state, and many of the counselors are, for a lack of a better term, merely doing a residency at the VA.
As for an actionable plan, we won't get it from either candidate as long as they can continue to garner support by calling each other names.
As for an actionable plan, we won't get it from either candidate as long as they can continue to garner support by calling each other names.
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Veterans' suicide rates aren't really that high per capita; there's nothing you're going to do to change human nature. Let's worry about taking care of people and look at the statistics later.
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The VA Needs to be reworked and getting to The basics of treating the Vets and the Politicians need to get Their heads handed to them...
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