{"id":103,"date":"2003-09-12T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T02:33:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-12T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T02:33:19","slug":"one-way-to-recoup-that-87-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/12\/one-way-to-recoup-that-87-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"One Way to Recoup That $87 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.estripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=17483\" title=\"Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals\">Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals<\/a>. From <i>Stars &#038; Stripes<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Troops wounded in combat in the nation\u2019s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals \u2014 some also are getting a bill.<\/p>\n<p>At a daily rate of $8.10, hospitalized troops, including those wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, are being charged for their meals.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t really do this, do they?<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI was amazed. I couldn\u2019t believe it when I heard it,\u201d said Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, who has introduced a bill to repeal what he calls an \u201coffensive\u201d law.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thumbs up to Young for spending some of his own money on the problem:<\/p>\n<p><i>To make a point about their objection, Young and his wife, Beverly, recently paid the $210.60 hospital from the National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., for a Marine Corps reservist who lost part of his foot during a recent deployment in which, according to Young, a 10-year-old Iraqi dropped a grenade in the staff sergeant\u2019s Humvee.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Does George Bush lack any feeling even for his pawns?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals. From Stars &#038; Stripes: Troops wounded in combat in the nation\u2019s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals \u2014 some also are getting a bill. At a daily rate of $8.10, hospitalized troops, including those wounded in Iraq and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}