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Just a couple of observations:
1. Walter Reed Army Hospital is NOT a part of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
2. The primary mission of the DVA Medical Centers is to provide care for service connected conditions. Provisions are in place to treat non-service connected conditions on a sliding priority scale.
3. Homeless Vets can obtain treatment at any VA Medical Center I know of.
4. Treatment is available and pro-active programs are carried out to seek out and provide medical care and other services to homeless/needy Veterans.
5. Most of the homeless veterans will not accept the offered services, and it is illegal to compel someone to accept offered services.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, according to a new study.
The analysis produced by two Harvard medical researchers estimates that 2,266 US military veterans under the age of 65 died in 2008 because they lacked health coverage and had reduced access to medical care.
That figure is more than 14 times higher than the 155 US troop deaths in Afghanistan in 2008, the study says.
Released as the United States commemorates fallen soldiers on Veterans Day, the study warns that even health care provided by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) leaves many veterans without coverage.
The analysis uses census data to isolate the number of US veterans who lack both private health coverage and care offered by the VA.
"That's a group that's about 1.5 million people," said David Himmelstein, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program who co-authored the study.
"The uninsured have about a 40 percent higher risk of dying each year than otherwise comparable insured individuals," Himmelstein told AFP.
To those who are against the public option or health care reform, who think "the govt has no business in my health care" or "I like mine the way it is and just don't wanna share!" -- WHAT IS YOUR SOLUTION? Do you think it's okay that you get to live, and others get to die?
At least we have freedom. And you can take our veteran's lives but you can never take our freedom!
No, actually you and I both agree on the major points, the United States of America needs to take care of thier vets. The system is unacceptable and has been so under EVERY President we have had in last several decades. what a telling track record, not good folks, not good at all. What I am pointing out is; that healthcare reformn will, at least if not the best method, take care of their healthcare needs. I would Love for this nation to act in an hoinerable manner, but at but at least the current bill will at least FINALLY take care of its vets, but then again ........... we shall see.
Casper
I'll buy that..
Nita
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