VA tsunami: Iraq and Afghanistan veteran patients

Months ago I wrote the problem with the VA and the new cases of PTSD and/or mental health was so huge that what they have done so far is equal to trying to hold off a tsunami with a beach shovel. While they are controlling a few drops of the tidal wave, the rest of the devastating wave manages to crash all around the shovel. Does it help? Sure if you focus only on what the shovel catches. The problem is when you look at what passes by without anything being done to catch the rest.

Sep 4, VCS Releases New VA Fact Sheet: VA Treated 350,000 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

Paul Sullivan, Executive Director, VCS


Sep 04, 2008
Veteran Patients 347,750 40% of Veterans
Mental Health Patients 147,744 42% of Patients
PTSD Patients 75,850 22% of Patients
Vet Center Patients 302,503 87% of Patients
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ArticleID/11066