Projecting the Costs to Care for Veterans of U.S. Military Oerations in Iraq and Afghanistan

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 17, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473294

Entities

People

  • Matthew S Goldberg

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Brain Injuries
  • Casualties
  • Health Services
  • Iraqi-War
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Security
  • Patient Care
  • Prosthetics
  • Surgical Amputations
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Wounds And Injuries

Readers

  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine