What is it that Republicans keep saying about supporting the troops again?
posted by Wally 8:02 AM Almost two million veterans lack health insurance coverage Just under two million veterans (12.7 percent of non-elderly veterans) were uninsured in 2004, up 290,000 since 2000, the study published in the December, 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health found. An additional 3.8 million members of their households were also uninsured and ineligible for VA care. “The number of uninsured vets has skyrocketed since 2000, and eligibility has been cut, barring hundreds of thousands of veterans from care,” said Dr. David Himmelstein, lead author of the study, a physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard. “We need a solution that works for veterans, their families, and all Americans – single payer national health insurance,” he said. “I see uninsured vets in my clinic every week,” said Dr. Jeffrey Scavron, a former Navy Physician in Springfield, Massachusetts. “In many cases, they’re too sick to work, but not yet s
