White House panel pushes on veteran care
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Leaders of a presidential commission on Wednesday implored Congress to quickly pass measures providing lifetime treatment to Iraq war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 24 -- Despite political pressure for a change of course in Iraq, the White House hopes to keep in place its existing military strategy and troop levels there after the mid-September report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, administration officials...
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Watts and other former POWs nationwide are trying to spread the word on how to get benefits from the Department of Veteran Affairs.
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The Bush administration proposed new regulations Monday aimed at clarifying employment protections for veterans and reservists returning from active duty.
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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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President Bush was briefed on a bipartisan panel's findings on Iraq on Tuesday but the White House doubted the group's report would provide a "magic bullet" to quickly resolve the Iraq war.
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The White House and congressional leaders called yesterday for swift investigation and repair of the problems plaguing outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as veterans groups and members of Congress in both parties expressed outrage over substandard housing and the slow, dysfunctional...
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The Veterans Affairs' system for handling disability claims is strained to its limit, and the Bush administration's current efforts to relieve backlogs won't be enough to serve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, investigators said Tuesday.
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BOSTON - (KRT) - Deriding a Republican-funded veterans group that has sought to cast doubts on his war record as a &quot;front&quot; for the Bush-Cheney campaign, Sen. John Kerry on Thursday launched his most vigorous counterattack, ...
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President Bush yesterday named seven more members to the commission reviewing the treatment of wounded veterans and the conditions at U.S. military and veterans hospitals:
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The 2005 federal budget falls far short of meeting the health-care needs of this country&#39;s military veterans. Congress needs to look at budget priorities and find more money to help these deserving men and women.
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President Bush met with wounded soldiers and military commanders Saturday before heading for the White House and a renewed fight with the Democratic-run Congress over future U.S. involvement in Iraq.
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.
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The White House insisted that President Bush had not meant to single out the ad run by veterans opposed to John Kerry.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs' system for handling disability claims is strained to its limit, and the Bush administration's  efforts to relieve backlogs will not be enough to serve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, investigators told a House committee yesterday.
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A presidential commission examining the care given to wounded U.S. service members yesterday recommended "fundamental changes"  aimed at simplifying the military's convoluted health-care bureaucracy and overhauling the veterans disability system for the first time in more than half a century.
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Nearly 1.7 million US veterans lack health insurance, according to a new report by the advocacy group Public Citizen. The findings contradict assumptions about health care