I beleive veterans have the VA. A friend of mine that served during Vietnam
goes to the VA whenever he needs to see as doctor. Doesn't cost him a penny.
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From: TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 12:06:22 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Soldiers are supposed to die for their country, not
live in it
--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@ ...> wrote:
>
> ... Thank God Almighty we have brave men who offer their
> lives and over come great fear in service to their country.
> We owe them every thing.
Just not health care. God Almighty is supposed to
provide that:
2,266 Veterans Died In 2008 Because They Were UninsuredAccording to a study
released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died
last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers emphasize
that "that figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by
U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died
(911 as of Oct. 31) since the war began in 2001."
The 1.46 million working-age veterans that did not have health insurance last
year all experienced reduced access to care as a consequence, leading to "six
preventable deaths a day."
Like other uninsured Americans, most uninsured vets are working people -- too
poor to afford private coverage but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or
means-tested VA care," said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor at Harvard
Medical School. [...]
>Dr. David Himmelstein, the co-author of the report and associate professor of
>medicine at Harvard, commented, "On this Veterans Day we should not only honor
>the nearly 500 soldiers who have died this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, but
>also the more than 2,200 veterans who were killed by our broken health
>insurance system. That's six preventable deaths a day."
The study's authors warn that the health care legislation "would do virtually
nothing for the uninsured until 2013" and would "leave at least 17 million
uninsured over the long run when reform kicks in," leaving many veterans still
without care.
