More post-9/11 veterans are wrestling with serious disabilities than vets of previous wars. Their challenge – and what we owe them – is steep.
from 2019. Mental health care has accounted for roughly 20% of the VA medical budget since 2015, BilmesSince 9/11, a confluence of factors has stretched the capacity of the VA. As the war on terror produced a new generation of veterans grappling with disabilities, those from Vietnam were becoming infirm and more reliant on VA care. The demand fueled a national crisis in 2014 after dozens of veterans died waiting to be seen at the VA in Phoenix.
“A veterans trust fund is a kind of no-brainer, good-government, nonpartisan way to get the government to start taking seriously the fact that there is this long-term cost of care for veterans,” she said.U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Mike McElhiney lost his arm after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan in 2001. He is now chief of staff at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs., McElhiney was headed to get a new prosthetic fitted for his right arm.
U.S. Army veteran Mike McElhiney, who lost his arm in Afghanistan in 2001, holds a piece of shrapnel doctors pulled from the wound. "We're going to have to continue to fight into the future, just like they fought for 100 years for benefits,” McElhiney said.
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