http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_110807WAB_murray_veterans_report_LJ.1edda1b9f.htmlSEATTLE - Senator Patty Murray and a group of doctors released a new report Thursday that estimates health care costs for our returning soldiers at $650 billion.
The Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-war group, put together the report. One of the researchers is a University of Washington psychiatrist who has worked extensively with injured soldiers.
Murray plans on using the report's data to reignite the debate on how much money should be spent to take care of injured vets in Seattle and around the country.
"This report should serve as a wake up for Americans and this administration. While we endlessly debate what we are gaining in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their families are falling victim to death, post-war trauma and lifelong struggles with mental and physical wounds as a legacy of this war. The U.S. needs to bring its troops home now,” said Dr. Evan Kanter, author of the report.