The US Military Sez Health Care Costs For Vets To Soar

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: If you think this is bad, wait until depleted uranium lawsuits start hitting the US courts.



Health care costs for vets to soar, report says
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Oct 8, 2010 16:12:22 EDT

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.

[Scuba]

1. So the right, given the choice between....

...making fewer disabled vets or cutting their benefits, chooses the latter.

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2. Why does the Pentagon have any say in what you post?

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

Was it someone from the Pentagon that requested that you limit your quotations or someone from Army Times (or Gannett)? Why would any government agency have any legitimate say in how much you quote from Army Times? Is there some editorial relationship between the publishers and the government?