Rob Hotakainen and Lesley Clark , McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - A presidential commission on Wednesday recommended an urgent overhaul of the federal system that cares for disabled military veterans, including new “quality of life” payments to compensate for injuries. The bipartisan panel also recommended better diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries and guaranteed care for post-traumatic stress syndrome for all soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After an afternoon run on the South Lawn with two veterans he’d met at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bush said he had told the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs to look at the recommendations, “take them seriously and to implement them, so that we can say with certainty that any soldier who has been hurt will get the best possible care and treatment that this government can offer. Among its other recommendations, the commission said that spouses and parents of seriously injured soldiers should qualify for six-month leaves under an extended Family and Medical Leave Act. It recommended assigning a “recovery coordinator” for seriously injured soldiers, to reduce paperwork and coordinate services such as medical care, education and disability benefits. Bush created the commission, called the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors, in response to stories about poor care for wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. read more
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