Nearly 1.7 Million U.S. Vets Lack Insurance -- Study
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Nearly 1.7 million U.S. veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the Veterans Affairs health program, health care advocates said on Tuesday.
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Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings.
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Nearly 1.7 million American military veterans lacked health insurance in 2003, a Harvard Medical School study indicates. That number represents 11.
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The poverty rate fell in 2006, but the percentage of Americans without health insurance hit a new high, the Census Bureau said.
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Going without healthcare coverage can spell disaster for your finances.
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Sinus and bronchial infections take a significant toll on the US economy, accounting for more than 30 million missed workdays every year, University of Pittsburgh researchers conclude from a new study.
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Several readers have asked us to check this surprising statistic, often used by Edwards. The language may be overly dramatic, but the figure is an official one, from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The department believes that one-third of the adult homeless population of the United States "have...
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For the better part of a decade, fewer and fewer American children have gone without health insurance each year, a trend that diverged sharply from the seemingly inexorable rise in the number of adults without coverage.
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CHICAGO  -- Nine out of 10 Americans who tried to   buy their own health insurance failed, either because the price   was too steep or because they were denied coverage due to a   current medical problem, a study said on Thursday.
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A new report says the U.S. military isn't ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need
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More people went without health  insurance in the United States last year, with 45 million, or  15.6 percent of the population, lacking any health coverage,  according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released on Thursday.
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Many U.S. combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are clearly suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder but it is not at all clear which treatments work to help them, an Institute of Medicine panel said on Thursday.
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More people went without health insurance in the United States last year, with 45 million, or 15.6 percent of the population, lacking
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The government used prewar data to estimate the cost of caring for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, contributing to a $3 billion budget shortfall at the Veterans Affairs Department since 2005, congressional investigators say.
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Almost one-third of U.S. soldiers seeking government health care after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed with a mental problem, researchers said on Monday in a study calling for more emphasis on the mental wounds of war.
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Veterans with diabetes get better  care under the Department of Veterans Affairs system than some  patients using managed care, U.S. researchers reported on  Monday and suggested nationalized health care can work well.
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Nearly 1.7 million veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics, according to a report released Tuesday.