Veterans Affairs mistakenly tells 1,200 they have Lou Gehrig's, a fatal neurological

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Veterans Affairs mistakenly tells 1,200 they have Lou Gehrig's, a fatal neurological disease

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease.

One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error.

Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error for the mistake.

Letters dated Aug. 12 were intended to notify veterans who have Lou Gehrig's disease of disability benefits available to them.

Calls to the VA were not immediately returned Monday.

Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS, is a rapidly progressive disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,0,59077.story

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Well, well, well - yet another sterling example of a governmental agency that some have touted as the "best medial care" or some such blather, in the entire known universe, blah, blah, blah. It seems that hardly a week goes by without some news item about yet another screw-up by the highly regarded - by some - DAV and their medical malpractice. Corrupted colonoscopies, over radiation etc. etc.

And not one word of defense for this continuing incompetence by our resident liberal/socialists, the very ones who insist that the VA is so wonderful.

I guess that they're going to try to blame this on Bush too!