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UPDATE: PRESIDENT NAMES SEVEN TO HEALTHCARE

PANEL -- Members include two veterans wounded in Iraq

and the wife of an Army staff sergeant wounded in Iraq.

 

 

Background here...
http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAR07/nf030707-3.htm

Story here... http://www.military.com/
NewsContent/0,13319,128178,00.html

Story below:

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Bush Names Seven to Healthcare Panel

Miami Herald

 

WASHINGTON - President Bush announced the names Friday of seven people appointed to the military healthcare commission chaired by University of Miami President Donna Shalala and former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole.

The members include two veterans wounded in Iraq and the wife of an Army staff sergeant wounded in Iraq.

The group has been charged with looking at ways to improve medical care for wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are:

--Marc Giammatteo, a student at Harvard Business School and former Army captain who was severely injured in Iraq and has undergone more than 30 surgeries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

--Jose Ramos, a student at George Mason University. As a hospital corpsman in the Navy, he treated soldiers injured during unconventional warfare in Iraq. He lost an arm during combat in Iraq in 2004.

--Tammy Edwards, a research assistant at The Geneva Foundation. Her husband, Army staff Sgt. Christopher Edwards, was severely burned in Iraq when a 500-pound bomb exploded under his vehicle. She received a bachelor's and master's degree from Florida State University.

--Kenneth Fisher, senior partner of Fisher Brothers and chairman of Fisher House Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that constructs what it calls "comfort homes" for families of hospitalized military personnel and veterans.

--C. Martin Harris, chief information officer of the information technology division at the Cleveland Clinic.

--Edward A. Eckenhoff, president of the National Rehabilitation Hospital.

--Gail Wilensky, an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation.

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Larry Scott  --