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Just for a start veterans have specific injuries (both mental and physical) that general hospital will be hard to have the expertise to deal with.

We are talking about people that freak out/enter combat mode when they see a garbage can or a box near the road. Why - because for them for 10 years it has been a real and present danger. And those are the very mild cases.



If the VA didn't exist hospitals would have the appropriate resources, especially those near bases.


Actually, I think the opposite would be truth.

If the VA didn't exist limited resources would get spread too thin among regular hospitals, though maybe not as badly in those near bases.




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