Long Range Health Care Costs for Veterans Uncertain

VA uncertain of long-range health costs 04/01/2010. The Department of Veterans Affairs has no way of determining long-range health care costs for the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal study on the wars' impact released Wednesday shows. Conducted by the federal Institute of Medicine, the study says costs for the nearly 2 million veterans of the two wars will expand over the next 30 years before tapering off. The VA's budget is almost $113 billion and has almost doubled since 2003. USA Today