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Richard Wilson, age 64, survived two tours in Vietnam but he’s afraid he won’t survive the wait at his local  V.A. hospital. Warned seven months ago that circulation blockages in his legs put him at imminent risk of a fatal heart attack or amputations, he called and e mailed  the V.A. daily.   Half a year

Richard Wilson, age 64, survived two tours in Vietnam. But he’s afraid he won’t survive the wait at his local VA hospital. Warned seven months ago that circulation blockages in his legs put him at imminent risk of a fatal heart attack or amputations, he called and emailed the VA daily. He’s in pain, unable

Encouraging vets on Medicare to use civilian care instead of the Veterans Administration could cut the VA’s patient backlog by as much as half, solving a national crisis. Almost half of vets are 65 or over, and nearly all vets using the VA have Medicare coverage. Often they’d be better off getting their bypass surgery

On May 7, the Obama administration boasted that ObamaCare was improving health-care quality for seniors, and it pulled out a bag of statistical tricks to prove it. But a closer look shows that it’s not improving care. It’s skimping on it, socking seniors with unexpected bills for “observation care” and likely shortening their lives. President

Leave it to President Obama and Democrats in Congress to enact “comprehensive” health reform and overlook the plight of 8.5 million veterans. That’s what they did in 2010 when they passed ObamaCare. It provides coverage for convicts and even for newcomers to this country with no waiting period, but it does nothing to help the

The nation was shocked by charges that more than 1,400 vets lingered and 40 died on a secret waiting list at the Phoenix, Ariz., Veterans Administration medical center. The list was concocted to conceal long waits for care. But what you haven’t heard is even worse: VA hospitals across America are manipulating the official electronic

On Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dodged a political bullet, when the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the National Rifle Association’s challenge to his state’s highly restrictive gun law. The justices’ decision not to hear the case, Drake v. Jerejian, leaves Second Amendment law in disarray. Federal appeals courts around the nation

Top Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R.-Washington) is walking back comments attributed to her that Obamacare can’t be repealed. But she’s not the only one suggesting that the goal should be making changes within the framework of the health law.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-KY) says the goal is to get the law “fixed.”  Apparently a

U.S. senators and governors from nine Western states held a first-ever summit on Friday in Salt Lake City to win more control over the vast swaths of federal land in their states. The summit had been planned before the standoff between the federal Bureau of Land Management and Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy a week

On Friday the president used the long-awaited resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to again claim victory for his namesake health law. “She got it fixed, got the job done,” Obama said. Right. Sorry, there is plenty of more bad news ahead. It’s not called SebeliusCare, and she wasn’t to blame for most of