In the next five years it is predicted that PTSD payments alone will total $12,000,000,000 a year. The gov't at present pays aprox. $8,000,000,000 a year. A large amount of this money is for Viet Nam Veterans who have made claims after the year 2000 for their service in Viet Nam. Two years ago the gov't and Bush Administration wanted to open up 75,000 medical files of PTSD Veterans to see if there were problems and or unfair payments due to the enormous increase in PTSD payments. The Veterans groups had such a fit that the gov't agreed they would not look into the matter further. My question is when this program gets to $20,000,000,000 (the gov't prediction) a year who is going to pay for it? In the early stages of PTSD treatment there were two absolute requirements- a dd-214 and a COMBAT history. It would be interesting to see the percent of soldiers that meet those two standards. I'm guessing around 60%. Maybe the gov't could do a little more for the returning COMBAT vets!!!

Conservatives love war until they see the costs. Wait ten years. No American soldiers have been deployed so many times as in these two wars. Seeing my fellow veterans who served in the Vietnam war, I never saw a man war had no lasting effect on. Add to this, rejection from the American people.

I'm sick of service escaping conservatives whining about the cost of their wars.

what about the ptsd cases that have been covered up and families and children are suffering now,which is not fair to the children and the spouses that have to be put on medications to be able to tolerate living in these long term relationships,like me we have been married 23 years and just about 11 years ago i was put on 1 pill for nerves,then a couple of months went by then i was put on another to go with it and now i am on 4 pills for depression,nerves,and to help me to sleep because of my fear of my husband's problems and it makes it hard for me to sleep,and also the nervous breakdown that he had in 2003 and has been diagnosed since then with PTSD.