Walter Reed Army Medical Center Spreads "Plague"

Follow up to Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Diagnosis, March 8, 2007 post, courtesy of Democracy Now!

Veteran Dies After VA Refuses Treatment For Days: As the Walter Reed scandal rocks Washington, what are the conditions at VA hospitals outside the Beltway? We look at the story of a 58-year-old Vietnam veteran named Willie Dougherty. He died in October after suffering two pelvic fractures. His family says he died because he was refused treatment by the VA. We speak with his widow, Jean Stentz, American Legion commander Harold Davis and Shay Everitt, the journalism student who first started investigating the story.