Download or read book Projecting the Costs to Care for Veterans of U S Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan written by Matthew S. Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Projecting the Costs to Care for Veterans of U S Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan written by Matthew S. Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Projecting the Costs to Care for Veterans of U S Military Oerations in Iraq and Afghanistan written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This testimony focuses on the numbers of troops who have served in those operations and the numbers who have sustained injuries and provide some indication of the severity of those injuries. It addresses the extent to which veterans of those operations have sought medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the types of care they have received. Finally it discusses the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) projections of the resources that VA may require over the next 10 years not only to continue providing that medical care, but also to provide associated benefits such as disability compensation paid to veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) paid to survivors of service members.
Download or read book Potential Costs of Veterans Health Care written by Heidi Golding and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The VA is operating its medical care system and associated research program with a budget of $48 billion for 2010, a rise of 8% in nominal terms from 2009. In nominal terms, that budget grew at an average rate exceeding 9% annually between 2004 and 2009. VA¿s health care budget will face continued pressure over the next few years. This report examines prospective demands on VA¿s health care system and the potential budgetary implications of meeting veterans¿ health care needs over the 2011¿2020 period. The report projects the potential costs to treat all veterans enrolled in VA¿s health care system and also, separately, projects the potential costs to treat veterans returning from military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other areas.
Download or read book Potential Costs of Veterans Health Care written by Heidi L. W. Golding and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report--which was mandated by section 104 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161)--examines prospective demands on VA's health care system and the potential budgetary implications of meeting veterans' health care needs over the 2011-2020 period. CBO projects the potential costs to treat all veterans enrolled in VA's health care system and also, separately, projects the potential costs to treat veterans returning from the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and related activities."--Preface.
Download or read book Statement of Matthew S Goldberg Deputy Assistant Director for National Security Projecting the Costs to Care for Veterans of U S Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Committee on Veterans Affairs U S House of Representatives written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potential Costs of Health Care for Veterans of Recent and Ongoing U S Military Operations written by Heidi L. W. Golding and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veterans returning from recent and ongoing overseas contingency operations (OCO) - Operation Iraqi Freedom, which ended in August 2010; Operation New Dawn, the ongoing military engagement in Iraq; and Operation Enduring Freedom, in Afghanistan - will place new demands on the health care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This testimony addresses the costs that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care system could face in meeting those veterans' health care needs over the 20112020 period. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Download or read book Potential Costs of Veterans Health Care written by Heidi Golding and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Download or read book A CBO Report written by Heidi L. W. Golding and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is operating its medical care system and associated research program with a budget of $48 billion for 2010, a rise of 8 percent in nominal terms (without adjusting for inflation) from 2009. In nominal terms, that budget grew at an average rate exceeding 9 percent annually between 2004 and 2009. VA's health care budget will face continued pressure over the next few years: Additional veterans are likely to seek care from VA, and cost increases in medical care are expected to continue to outpace cost increases for other goods and services. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report--which was mandated by section 104 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161)--examines prospective demands on VA's health care system and the potential budgetary implications of meeting veterans' health care needs over the 2011--2020 period. CBO projects the potential costs to treat all veterans enrolled in VA's health care system and also, separately, projects the potential costs to treat veterans returning from the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and related activities. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective analysis, this report makes no recommendations.
Download or read book Estimated Costs of U S Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cost of Iraq Afghanistan and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9 11 written by Amy Belasco and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ninth year of operations since the 9/11 attacks while troops are being withdrawn in Iraq and increased in Afghanistan, the cost of war continues to be a major issue including the total amount appropriated, the amount for each operation, average monthly spending rates, and the scope and duration of future costs. This report analyzes war funding for the Defense Department and tracks funding for USAID and VA Medical funding.
Download or read book The Three Trillion Dollar War The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict written by Linda J. Bilmes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-02-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans—for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.
Download or read book Estimated Costs of U S Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War written by Tanisha M. Fazal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original comprehensive history of US military medicine. Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dramatic improvements in American military medicine have had an unanticipated effect: saving more soldiers' lives has vastly increased long-term, downstream costs of war with profound consequences for global politics in an era of heightened great power competition. In Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War, Tanisha M. Fazal traces the modern history of medical treatment and casualty rates in American conflicts from the Civil War to the more recent counterinsurgency wars. As she shows, wars became increasingly survivable for wounded troops, to the point now where a large majority of wounded soldiers survive. Yet the human and financial implications of this steep increase in the wounded-to-killed ratio are dramatic, and her powerful analysis of this shift provides a necessary corrective to how we understand the costs of war. For each major conflict, Fazal analyzes the weapons used, injuries sustained, and policies put in place for veterans' care and pensions. As she argues, these improvements have significant financial and deeply personal implications for the returned wounded and their families, as well as the US government and its citizenry. Fazal's analysis highlights the significance of policymakers underestimating the costs of war, which in turn makes it easier both to initiate and continue military action abroad, contributing to Americas' penchant for engaging in so-called "endless wars." A sweeping political history, Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War will fundamentally change our understanding of the lasting consequences of America's wars.
Download or read book Gulf War and Health written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh in a series of congressionally mandated reports on Gulf War veterans health, this volume evaluates traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its association with long-term health affects. That many returning veterans have TBI will likely mean long-term challenges for them and their family members. Further, many veterans will have undiagnosed brain injury because not all TBIs have immediately recognized effects or are easily diagnosed with neuroimaging techniques. In an effort to detail the long term consequences of TBI, the committee read and evaluated some 1,900 studies that made up its literature base, and it developed criteria for inclusion of studies to inform its findings. It is clear that brain injury, whether penetrating or closed, has serious consequences. The committee sought to detail those consequences as clearly as possible and to provide a scientific framework to assist veterans as they return home.
Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.
