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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...
...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...
...We’re not an hour from universal coverage,” he said. “But the study should be very powerful in directing pressure and funding to the VA to increase coverage...