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01.26.2009 9:00 pm

Reality check for veterans’ care

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Post-Dispatch file photo.

The United States will spend $98 billion this year on services for military veterans.
Yet tens of thousands of veterans are on waiting lists for urgently needed counseling and psychiatric care. A backlog of more than 400,000 disability claims…

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07.22.2008 12:29 pm

Fighting for socialized health care

jeff_barracks_opt.jpgOur friend Jason Rosenbaum at the Columbia Tribune reports that Democratic Congressional candidate Judy Baker has gotten herself into a little trouble over socialized health care — but not the kind you probably expect.

It seems Ms. Baker has been talking up…

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04.21.2008 9:01 pm

Tuesday editorial: War’s unseen wounds

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Last week, the RAND Corp. released a massive study suggesting that as many as 300,000 U.S. troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan may be suffering from severe depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Another 320,000 may have suffered traumatic brain…

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