Congress Hears of Neglect in Veteransâ Medical Care
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Reports of bureaucratic entanglement dominated a hearing today on how wounded veterans are treated.
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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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Problems over treatment of wounded soldiers that created a scandal at the top U.S. military veterans' hospital are prevalent throughout the Army's health care system, lawmakers said on Monday.
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Democrats and Republicans in Congress must set aside partisan differences to adequately fund health care services for active U.S. troops and military veterans, Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas said Saturday in the weekly Democratic radio address.
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Report on D.C. health issues shows one in five residents has no regular source of health care.
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About 1.7 million veterans are among the 45 million Americans who have no health insurance coverage, say Harvard Medical School researchers and a doctors group advocating federally financed health care.
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Almost 1.7 million military veterans are without health insurance and cannot get medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, a group of medical researchers charged Tuesday.
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The chairman of a key Senate committee said Tuesday he would consider administration proposals to charge some veterans new or higher fees for their health care and medicine, even though Congress has previously rejected the idea.
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The Veterans Administration and its benefits programs need to be streamlined, a Congressional panel was told.
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Wounded British troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving inadequate medical treatment similar to that reported by American veterans, relatives and British media reported Sunday.
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More than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical treatment from the Veterans Health Administration report symptoms of stress or other mental disorders &#151; a tenfold increase in the last 18 months, according to an agency study.
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Lies from the White House. Incompetence in treating wounded veterans. Irrelevance in Congress. Can't anybody do anything right? It's days like these that turn Americans sour on government, stoking a desire for leaders who actually lead.
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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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Some quotes from the House subcommittee hearing investigating the conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Monday:
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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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The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians, both living and dead, is missing or might have been stolen. The information was stored on a portable hard drive that was being used by a VA employee at the department's facility in Birmingham, Ala.
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Lawmakers vowed quick action and called for an independent commission to examine poor conditions for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center