Veterans' medical costs set to soar

Veterans' medical costs set to soar

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The government expects to be spending $59 billion a year to compensate injured warriors in 25 years. The reasons are many: worse wounds, more disabilities, better awareness of benefits and, ironically, advances that are reducing war-time deaths.

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It's amazing, after so many decades they still can't get it right.


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Unfortunately, this is a large biproduct of our improved medical treatment. People are surviving things that would have killed a soldier in Vietnam. So many many more people are returning home injured. War is an ugly enterprise. Just imagine the toll that this war is going to take on the Iraqi people as well. I hope it was worth it.

Knowing our trusty government, they will find a way to screw a large portion of these vets out of their benefits. We will see.