Ryleigh Thornton
Ms. Freshwater
Honors English 9
7 March 2017
Veterans:
How can the government improve health care for military veterans?
The suicide rate of returned veterans is 22 veterans per day (Gourley 1). “To help insure the VA has the capacity to diagnose and treat veterans returning from the Iran and Afghanistan conflicts, as well as to maintain these services for other veterans, we recommend that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs direct the Under Secretary for Health to prioritize those recommendations needed to improve PTSD services and to expedite VA’s time frames for fully implementing those recommendations” (Bascetta 1). There was a debate about improving health-care for veterans. The idea would help maintain the costs by spreading the risk by “insuring both healthy and unhealthy subscribers”(Miller 1) and letting the government keep …show more content…
Many conflicting statistics show that there is not enough being done to help recover returning veterans that need help, but there are not enough systems and doctors. A study has revealed that only half of returning veterans receive treatments (“Foundations” 1). Many people agree that the numbers of returning veterans getting treatments should be higher. The government can train more doctors to get more systems so that more veterans can receive treatment.
There are not enough services and systems to treat returning veterans with mental illness. Improvement-supporting systems are not used among wide-ranging areas. More systems would result in more veterans being treated. Their goals were to increase capacity and access to services, improve integration of mental health, and emphasize the importance of recovery and rehabilitation (Greenberg 1). If the government can accomplish these goals, it would make the veterans who need help very thankful. If the government can create usable and effective systems and services, then more veterans would be
Ms. Freshwater
Honors English 9
7 March 2017
Veterans:
How can the government improve health care for military veterans?
The suicide rate of returned veterans is 22 veterans per day (Gourley 1). “To help insure the VA has the capacity to diagnose and treat veterans returning from the Iran and Afghanistan conflicts, as well as to maintain these services for other veterans, we recommend that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs direct the Under Secretary for Health to prioritize those recommendations needed to improve PTSD services and to expedite VA’s time frames for fully implementing those recommendations” (Bascetta 1). There was a debate about improving health-care for veterans. The idea would help maintain the costs by spreading the risk by “insuring both healthy and unhealthy subscribers”(Miller 1) and letting the government keep …show more content…
Many conflicting statistics show that there is not enough being done to help recover returning veterans that need help, but there are not enough systems and doctors. A study has revealed that only half of returning veterans receive treatments (“Foundations” 1). Many people agree that the numbers of returning veterans getting treatments should be higher. The government can train more doctors to get more systems so that more veterans can receive treatment.
There are not enough services and systems to treat returning veterans with mental illness. Improvement-supporting systems are not used among wide-ranging areas. More systems would result in more veterans being treated. Their goals were to increase capacity and access to services, improve integration of mental health, and emphasize the importance of recovery and rehabilitation (Greenberg 1). If the government can accomplish these goals, it would make the veterans who need help very thankful. If the government can create usable and effective systems and services, then more veterans would be