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EDITORIAL -- FEMALE VETERANS: HIGHEST INEQUALITY -- "The

VA's addressing its shortcomings in regard to women could prove

to be one more area in which increasing equality in the armed

services will help us to deal with injustices in society at large."

Editorial from the Seattle P-I here...
 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368094_vawomened.html

Editorial below:

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Female vets: Highest inequality

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

At least Veterans Affairs has noticed that female veterans deserve adequate health care. VA Secretary James Peake promises the agency will do a better job of caring for them.

That's a first step in the harder job of actually delivering. An internal report disclosed by The Associated Press found that approximately one-third of VA outpatient facilities give better quality of care to men than to women.

At a conference on Friday, Peake said, "We are making a full-court press to ensure that women veterans receive the highest quality of care." Among other things, AP reported, the agency is investing in more equipment for women's care.

Politicians love to distract from such problems with phony talk about the world's best health care system. In facing up to the problems for female veterans, the agency is setting an example of what can be done to improve on the country's pervasive health care disparities -- or, to follow the plainer rephrasing of Odessa Brown Children's Clinic's Dr. Ben Danielson, health care injustices.

The injustices go far beyond our second-world lack of guaranteed health care or the ways individual medical crises lead to so many bankruptcies. As a 2003 federal government study helped to document, health care is riddled with disparities for women and racial and ethnic minorities.

The U.S. military has a proud history of removing barriers to equal opportunity. The VA's addressing its shortcomings in regard to women could prove to be one more area in which increasing equality in the armed services will help us to deal with injustices in society at large.

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