Health Care and Veterans

Cross-posted from Jon Wolfman's BlogShot

As you honor veterans today, consider this: Over 1,461,000 working-age veterans lack any health insurance and, last year, over 2,266 died as a direct result. That is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008 and more than twice as many as have died (911, as of Oct. 31, 2009) since the war began in 2001. These statistics come from a new analysis by a team of Harvard Medical School researchers based on data from their upcoming article in the American Journal of Public Health.

 

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[spiritual vacations]

Health is an important matter in our lives and it has to be taken cared of for us to live a long and healthy life.

[Veterans Compensation Benefits]

Wanted to suggest a resource for those needing assistance with veterans compensation benefits - www.veteranslaw.com

thanks for posting this, good thought!

[Brian Wolfman]

Hello. After many years at Public Citizen, I have moved to Georgetown law school, where I will be a co-director of the Institute for Public Representation (IPR) and head IPRs Civil Rights Clinic. You can reach me at 202 661 6582 and wolfmanb@law.georgetown.edu.

If you want to contact the Litigation Group, contact Litigation Group Director Allison Zieve at azieve@citizen.org.

Brian Wolfman

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Health is an important matter in our lives and it has to be taken cared of for us to live a long and healthy life

[Williamdirck]

my name is william dirck and i am a disabled american vet who served in the usn and tours with the usmc,so i contacted cl&p to extend my power shut off for 2 weeks until i recieve my benefits check and set up a payment plan because i had 2 cervical spinal operations and have pneumonia,broncitis,broncial asthma,and copd and need breathing treatments and air filtering equip. the girls were very nice and tried to help, but whomever their super. was pretty much told me tough and that WE DON;T CARE AND and i needed to come up with a large payment or my power will be shut off in 3 days even with med. documentation that just expired. so who ever that supervisor was we dont need people like that in positions of authority. thank you so very much