Military Fails to Collect From AIG for Care to Injured Contractors
Intensive care unit ward nurse Cynthia Warwick tends to a patient at the combat support hospital on the U.S military forward operating base at Camp Salerno on Nov. 25, 2008 in Khost, Afghanistan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has failed to bill American Insurance Group and other major insurance carriers for millions of dollars in medical care provided to private contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new federal report [1] (PDF).
The United States has hired hundreds of thousands of civilians to work in the two war zones. When injured on the job, their medical care is supposed to be paid for by private insurance companies, primarily AIG, under policies bought by the contractors.
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Paraplegic Man Suffers Spider Bite, Walks Again
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He’s been confined to a wheelchair for 20 years. Now a paraplegic man is walking again. And his doctors call it a miracle. CBS station KOVR-TV in Sacramento went to Manteca, Calif. to find out how a spider bite helped get him back on his feet.
“I closed my eyes and then I was spinning like a flying saucer,” explains David Blancarte.
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