Giffords' ordeal puts focus on coverage

Giffords' ordeal puts focus on coverage: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords owes her recovery in no small part to veterans with similar injuries. Doctors and rehabilitation specialists have learned a great deal from the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. One in five veterans of those wars has suffered some form of brain trauma. Yet veterans' health care doesn't consistently cover cognitive rehabilitation therapy, the same therapy that has helped Giffords. Cognitive rehabilitation can include speech and communication therapies, and therapies to boost memory and social skills and relearn routine tasks such as getting dressed.