Nearly 1.7 Million Veterans Lack Health Care -Study
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Nearly 1.7 million US veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the
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The health care system for veterans is facing a potential deluge of soldiers returning from Iraq with serious mental health problems.
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The Bush administration said on Tuesday problems in the treatment of wounded U.S. war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan need to be fixed, after reports that many face neglect in the Army's medical system.
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There is too little support for the long-term mental health needs of veterans, a committee of MPs finds.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care because Veterans Affairs officials have yet to determine whether their initial screening tests are reliable, investigators say.
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A presidential panel said yesterday that it is compiling a first-of-its-kind national survey to determine scientifically the extent of health-care problems for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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President Bush on Thursday released $3.7 billion in emergency money that Congress requested to care for veterans, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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NEW YORK  - In a study of patients seen at primary care clinics, nearly 20 percent had at least one anxiety disorder and 41 percent of these patients were receiving no treatment.
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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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A portable hard drive reported missing by the Department of Veterans Affairs may have held data on 1.8 million veterans and physicians -- far more than the 50,000 people the agency initially said might be affected.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released on Tuesday.
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Problems with 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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The number of Americans without medical insurance reached a record 45 million in 2003, highlighting what many analysts say is a deepening crisis in the way the nation pays for health care.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks.
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A stagnant economy and rising health care costs helped push the percentage of people in the USA without health insurance last year to 15.
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Hospitals, doctors, and health centers last year provided $1.1 billion of medical care to Massachusetts residents without health insurance, according to a report that's part of a new push to cover the state's uninsured workers.