Researchers say 1.7 million vets living without health coverage
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Almost 1.7 million military veterans are without health insurance and cannot get medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, a group of medical researchers charged Tuesday.
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Here we go again. The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians -- both living and deceased -- is missing and may have been stolen. The information had been stored on a portable hard drive that was...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians, both living and dead, is missing or might have been stolen. The information was stored on a portable hard drive that was being used by a VA employee at the department's facility in Birmingham, Ala.
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Nearly 1.7 million US veterans lack health insurance, according to a new report by the advocacy group Public Citizen. The findings contradict assumptions about health care
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Aug. 26, 2004 -- An estimated 45 million Americans don&#39;t have health insurance, and that number is rising faster than the number of Americans with insurance, according to a new report released today by the US Census Bureau.
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Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care
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The number of people living in the nation without medical insurance rose 2.9 percent to a record 46.6 million in 2005 as health-care costs climbed.
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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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Medical costs for U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could range from $350 billion to $662 billion over the next 40 years, as soldiers survive injuries that would have killed them in past conflicts, according to a Harvard University study.
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A blistering audit claims the state&#39;s Medicaid system is in such disarray that 1.4 million pills are missing, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are getting millions of dollars in benefits and abuse of mental patients may be
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Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a study published Monday has concluded.
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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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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As the nation struggles to improve medical and mental health care for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, about 1.8 million  U.S. veterans under age 65 lack even basic health insurance or access to care at Veterans  Affairs hospitals, a new study has found.
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Several readers have asked us to check this surprising statistic, often used by Edwards. The language may be overly dramatic, but the figure is an official one, from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The department believes that one-third of the adult homeless population of the United States "have...
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NEW YORK  - A growing number of Americans are devoting a large share of their paychecks to healthcare, and some are skipping medical care because of it, researchers reported Tuesday.
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A new study reveals that 1/3rd of returning veterans have a diagnosed mental illness, and young soldiers are paticularly vulnerable