That this Country always seems to have a really big problem in wanting to pay for after the cheering for dies down, no problem with costs on the front end and during to wage, a long time back, especially within that so called conservative and hawkish mentality!
October 4, 2010 - We hope any president or possible candidate for president in the near future read this headline last week: "Study: Veterans' health costs could top $900B(illion)."
No, that's not the cost of health care for all the aging veterans in the VA system. That's the expected cost for the veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Add it directly to the current, accumulated direct cost of these wars, now somewhere around $1 trillion. (And all of it borrowed to avoid the tax increases otherwise needed to cover it.)
The cost study was conducted by two economists, one a Nobel Prize winner. It looked at the accumulated costs of caring for the physical and mental health impacts on wounded veterans. That includes the lifetime medical care, disability payments from the VA, and Social Security payments for severely disabled vets. {read rest}
October 04. 2010 - A new study estimates that health costs for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans could top $900 billion, and a lawmaker wants to set up a trust fund to make sure the bill will be paid.
Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., warned that the U.S. faces a huge bill for veterans' health care, and his concerns were buttressed by a recent study by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, of Harvard University.
The two academics say the number of veterans, their injury rates and the cost of treating them have increased far more than expected in the last couple of years.
"If Americans want to vote for war, the Congress wants to vote for war, that's fine -- but include the real costs" and budget for them, Filner told reporters by phone Wednesday. Filner is chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, which has scheduled a hearing on the issue. {read rest}
October 3, 2010 - For a decade now, U.S. service men and women have been working to implement our government’s policies as they battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They have fought for many reasons, all selflessly responding to the duties placed on them for what is intended to be the good of our country.
Perhaps it should not be a shock that today our government is trying to digest the latest “expense” of that decade of policy projection, but we can all hope they will not drop the ball on this one.
A recent study suggests that health care costs for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars could top $900 billion in the future, and some are worried how the government, through the Veterans Affairs Department, will plan for that costs and make sure our veterans are always taken care of. {read rest}
"but we can all hope they will not drop the ball on this one."
That 'ball' that's dropped, as usual, is by Us the Country, not 'they' but 'we', including even some Veterans, as to those who serve it!!!
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