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The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
There was great delight in discussing the "legacy" costs of Auto Workers a couple of years ago, no one ever wanted to discuss the "legacy" costs of our veterans.. now they are starting to talk about it.
These long wars have exposed a lot of servicemen and women to war, and there have been at least 30,000 injured.. that is a lot of medical care.
The right will certainly say how they would much rather pay for this than for "Obama Care", but in reality most of this would not be necessary if we did not invade Iraq based on lies.. suspect that this figure is low, as medical costs always go up. And as usual there will be other related costs from undiagnosed illnesses...
The only folks who ever benefit from this are the "merchants of death", aka the war profiteers.. the military industrial complex... unless you are victims of the thought police.
The expense of caring for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is an unfunded budget liability for U.S. taxpayers that in years to come will rival the cost of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, lawmakers will be told Thursday.
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hear new estimates of the cost of lifetime medical care and benefits for returning troops disabled by their service — a total of more than $1.3 trillion.
"It's somewhere between Medicare and Social Security in terms of its potential impact" on the budget, said Rep. Bob Filner, California Democrat and committee chairman.
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Re: The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
It's not even close to the cost Medicare and Social Security this guy is on drugs.
Your trying to equate Auto getting bailed out to people wounded in combat is obscene.
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Re: The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
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Originally Posted by DarrylS
If there was no Iraq the costs would be significant less..
It's moot. There was an Iraq and men and women were hurt. It is our responsibility to care for them with the same spirit and kinship with which they cared for us.
They paid with their internal organs, their limbs and their sanity. We can surely repay the debt with our cash and governmental insurance benefits.
Re: The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
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Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa
It's moot. There was an Iraq and men and women were hurt. It is our responsibility to care for them with the same spirit and kinship with which they cared for us.
They paid with their internal organs, their limbs and their sanity. We can surely repay the debt with our cash and governmental insurance benefits.
bingo!
What would you do? NOT pay for the veteran's medical needs just because you didn't agree with the war they were told to fight?
Re: The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
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Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa
It's moot. There was an Iraq and men and women were hurt. It is our responsibility to care for them with the same spirit and kinship with which they cared for us.
They paid with their internal organs, their limbs and their sanity. We can surely repay the debt with our cash and governmental insurance benefits.
Moot or not, there is no denial of responsibility, just a comment on why any time we lead men and women in to conflict there are unintended consequences... in this case 1.3 trillion dollars of medical care, which brings the total for the Iraq war above 2 trillion dollars.
War is not good for anything or anybody...
__________________ "Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you win more than anyone else".. tweet from Kurt Warner to Tom Brady.
Re: The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
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Originally Posted by DarrylS
Moot or not, there is no denial of responsibility, just a comment on why any time we lead men and women in to conflict there are unintended consequences... in this case 1.3 trillion dollars of medical care, which brings the total for the Iraq war above 2 trillion dollars.
War is not good for anything or anybody...
Without war there would be no America. Without war blacks would still be slaves in America. Without war, we'd all be German.
The medical "legacy" costs for armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
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