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Are We Still Failing Our Wounded?

By Jamie Reno / Military Blogger

Published September 17, 2010 at 10:50 AM PDT

This story was published more than 13 years ago.

Paul Sullivan, Veterans for Common Sense

As I reported in in the March, 2007 cover story titled "Failing Our Wounded," the Department of Veterans Affairs was failing to properly treat our ailing veterans because of a massive backlog of claims, lack of staff, and a mind-numbing bureaucracy that only exacerbated the stress so many former troops already feel.

Well, according to a well-researched piece in the Houston Chronicle, despite an influx of funds and staff and a well-meaning new leader in Eric Shinseki, things evidently haven't changed much at the VA:

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Jamie Reno blogged about the military for KPBS' Home Post blog. Jamie has been the San Diego correspondent for Newsweek magazine for nearly two decades, for which he has written or co-written cover stories on such subjects as the Enron collapse, Napster, the war on terrorism, media conglomeration, the Heaven's Gate religious cult, teen culture, and new cancer treatments. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, People, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. Jamie has won more than 20 Society of Professional Journalist and Press Club awards, including the Press Club's Best of Show award in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

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