This Week in CQ Researcher

Wounded Veterans by Peter Katel, August 31, 2007
Is America shortchanging vets on health care?

Early this year, The Washington Post exposed shockingly substandard treatment for wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center 's outpatient facilities. Follow-up investigations soon turned up evidence that problems extended beyond shabby conditions at the military's top-drawer hospital.

Amid the present uproar, a presidential panel on military and veterans' health care has called for far-reaching changes, but some critics say changes need to go deeper if the country is to live up to its promises to its troops.

• Does the Dole-Shalala commission have the best plan for improving veterans' care?
  
• Are veterans being shortchanged by DoD and VA to save money?
  
• Would more money solve most of the problems with veterans' care?

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