thousands of vietnam veterans to qualify for v.a. care, due to exposure to agent orange. and both of those measures were long overdue. and those veterans, who would argue that those veterans shouldn t get care from the v.a.? posttraumatic stress and exposure to agent orange are obviously very, very service-connected issues. but even the bolstered, better-funded v.a. system of the last few years has proved itself to be no match for the influx of claims that resulted from those well-meaning expansions. is this, at heart, a resource problem? i mean, as recently as february, a bill that would have created more than two dozen new v.a. mental centers and expanded others, that bill was filibustered in the senate. 41 republicans voted against it, saying it was too expensive. these are the same republicans who are now calling for eric shinseki s head, and saying it s an outrage the way the v.a. can t upscale to meet the needs of today s veterans. is this a resource problem? are we just a countr
posttraumatic stress and exposure to agent orange are obviously very, very service-connected issues. but even the bolstered, better-funded v.a. system of the last few years has proved itself to be no match for the influx of claims that resulted from those well-meaning expansions. is this, at heart, a resource problem? i mean, as recently as february, a bill that would have created more than two dozen new v.a. mental centers and expanded others, that bill was filibustered in the senate. 41 republicans voted against it, saying it was too expensive. these are the same republicans who are now calling for eric shinseki s head, and saying it s an outrage the way the v.a. can t upscale to meet the needs of today s veterans. is this a resource problem? are we just a country that dysmorphically cannot see the magnitude of the financial and governmental resources that it will take to keep our accomplishments to this country s millions of veterans? have we just been writing checks with policy tha
long overdue. and those veterans, who would argue that those veterans shouldn t get care from the v.a.? posttraumatic stress and exposure to agent orange are obviously very, very service-connected issues. but even the bolstered, better-funded v.a. system of the last few years has proved itself to be no match for the influx of claims that resulted from those well-meaning expansions. is this, at heart, a resource problem? i mean, as recently as february, a bill that would have created more than two dozen new v.a. mental centers and expanded others, that bill was filibustered in the senate. 41 republicans voted against it, saying it was too expensive. these are the same republicans who are now calling for eric shinseki s head, and saying it s an outrage the way the v.a. can t upscale to meet the needs of today s veterans. is this a resource problem? are we just a country that dysmorphically cannot see the magnitude of the financial and governmental resources that it will take to keep our