Health Care Costs For Veterans To Soar

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The cost of veterans health care will rise between 45 percent and 70 percent over the next decade, a massive jump that will only partly result from treating Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans, Army Times (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/10/military-va-health-care-costs-100810w/) reports.
Link (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=150&sid=2076437)



The report looks at VA health care costs only through 2020, and not at the longer-term expense of providing a lifetime of care to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Recent testimony before the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee warned that long-term health care and benefits costs of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans over the next 40 to 50 years could total $589 billion and $934 billion, respectively.
Link (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/10/military-va-health-care-costs-100810w/)

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The WWI vets are gone, the WWII vets (10 million of them) are going, the Korea and Vietnam vets are starting to go, and there are about 1 mil GWOT vets coming into the system.

A more probable cause is sending low priority vets like me letters to come in and get flu shots.

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vets like me

Thank you.

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Another Trillion+ federal reserve notes...

When figuring up the cost of wars, is this ever considered?

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Did you know...

The CBO/OMB don't even include the costs of US retired Veterans pay/costs/expenses in their annual budgets.

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Did you know...

The CBO/OMB don't even include the costs of US retired Veterans pay/costs/expenses in their annual budgets.
Actually they did in the DoD budget, which is how they figured contractors at over $100K per year was cheaper than using troops for the same work.