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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…

        The New York Times this morning has a good piece on the ongoing Senate debate on a revamped GI Bill, which would provide more money for college tuition to war veterans. The impact of the GI Bill has…

Disturbing new evidence emerged last week that the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to provide shoddy mental health care for soldiers and Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lack of effective screening, delayed care and denied diagnoses add up to a…

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

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…