As the numbers of U.S. war injured in Iraq and Afghanistan soared, the Bush administration admitted to lawmakers on Tuesday it had underestimated funds to cover health care costs for veterans and Congress would have to plug a $2.6 billion hole.
"The bottom line is there is a surge in demand in VA (health) services across the board," said Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson.
The Veterans Administration assumed it would have to take care of 23,553 patients who are veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but that number had been revised upward to 103,000, Nicholson told a House of Representatives panel.
(Reuters)
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
War injured toll soars, hits veterans health costs
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103,000 soldiers either killed or some way, shape or form injured and needing help in the form of medical services while out leaders cut the veteran benefits,help do away with VA hospitals and have the gumtion to insist that we are winning this war ,I wonder what else the American people will need to hear or read about our troops that will finally let them believe how we were buffaloed into believing this war would be over in months and with very few casualties,Bush and Cheney,Rice,Rumsfeld,Rove should be made to stand up in congress and read off the 103,000 names of these soldiers that they thought meant nothing to this country but everything to their pocket books shame,shame, shame.T.A.
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