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...Most veterans are too poor to afford private insurance, but according to the VA, too affluent for their coverage,” she added...
...data could pressure the government to allocate significantly more money to the Department of Veterans Affairs, experts said. Nearly 8 million veterans were enrolled in the VA health system...
...number of U.S. veterans without health insurance has soared to almost 1.8 million—nearly one quarter of all veterans in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system—since the year President Bush was elected, according to a new Harvard Medical School study...
...Until I started seeing uninsured veterans, I thought that veterans could always get care at the VA,” Steffie J. Woolhandler, a professor at the Harvard Medical School and a co-author of the study, said yesterday...
...team of researchers from the Medical School said in a statement Tuesday that the number of veterans without access to health care has increased by 290,000 since 2000, reflecting cutbacks in employer-provided health insurance and Bush administration policies that restrict eligibility for Veteran Affairs (VA) services...