Returning troops face obstacles to care - USATODAY.com

Returning troops face obstacles to care - USATODAY.com: "Returning troops face obstacles to care" By Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Injured soldiers returning home for medical treatment face an unacceptable maze of paperwork and bureaucracy, leaders of a presidential commission on veterans' health care said Saturday. At their first public hearing, members pledged to work quickly to find solutions rather than assign blame. "This is not going to be a witch hunt," said former GOP Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, one of the heads of the Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors. Dole noted that at least nine congressional committees are investigating veterans' health care problems after the disclosures in February of squalid conditions and poor outpatient treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Donna Shalala, health and human services secretary under President Clinton, said the commission planned a report by late July that would be pragmatic and "solution-driven."