Top Ten Nursing Issues for 2008: Veteran Care

Veteran Care

Today’s veterans are too often realizing that the healthcare benefits the United States Government has promised them are coming up short. Many of these veterans are caught between a rock and an economic hard place, meaning they earn too much money to be qualified for services they need, but at the same time, they don’t make enough to get private insurance to cover those needs. This places them among the millions of uninsured patients that put a strain on our health care system. In the rare occasion that a veteran does qualify, they’re often put on long waiting lists and even when their names comes to the top, they receive inadequate care.

In most cases, our veterans are not receiving the care they need to battle their chronic conditions or for simple regular checkups. This allows their problems to get progressively worse, placing even more strain on the system - especially nurses and other healthcare providers. Nurses see these problems, know there is a solution and bang their heads against the proverbial wall trying to figure out why the government doesn’t do something to alleviate the situation.

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