VA Health Service Failure

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How is it that the nation with the most comprehensive system of assistance for its veterans has failed so miserably in caring for their health and medical needs? The VA health services system was established in 1921, after the end of WWI as the U.S. Veterans Bureau (Shonick 1995) to provide inpatient, outpatient, and long term care programs for veterans that had medical conditions as a result of their military service. Today services are provided to veterans for all health issues whether military related or not at over 152 medical centers, in addition to nearly 1400 community-based outpatient clinics, community living centers, Vet Centers and Domiciliaries. Together these health care facilities provide care to more than 8.3 million veterans

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