The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of a 20-year military presence that is now estimated to have cost $5.8 trillion. Today, the returning wave of U.S. veterans has left us with an additional cost to the war: the cost of veteran health and welfare and the failure of our American institutions to meet […]
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The War on Terrible Healthcare? How the VA Has Stoked Useless Partisanship and Invoked Special Interest
We are in the middle of a “war.” No, it’s not of the same magnitude as the Second World War, or of Vietnam for that matter. There isn’t any foreign aggression that we have to be afraid of. Don’t worry, our boys and girls aren’t going to be sent overseas; they’ll be at safe at […]