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We do very well when it comes to high technology to treat cancer and heart disease but our system is very oriented toward acute care and not chronic care and disability . In a recent article , you chronicle how heart disease , cancer , chronic illness , and disability have a greater effect on women , and in particular racial / ethnic minorities and the poor . Of late , indeed , some [ column 2 :] signs have been exhibited of a more liberal and resolute course of action , and we are not without hope that these efforts will be crowned by highly useful and practical results . Speculation , of course , is busy as to the immediate and ultimate results of this discovery - - a discovery which few thinking persons will hesitate in referring to an increased interest in the matter of gold generally , by the late developments in California ; and this reflection brings us inevitably to another - - the exceeding inopportuneness of Von Kempelen 's analysis . But I shall tire you and catch cold - - so with our united love to Mrs. Rice , my dear Harriet , and yourself , good night . Click here to read a new study authored by Linda Bilmes entitled , “ Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan : The long-term costs of providing veterans medical care and disability benefits . If Bush ’ s new military plan is a temporary step to buy time to move in the direction of the Iraq Study Group ’ s proposals of training Iraqi forces and gradually withdrawing American forces , there may be something to be said for it as one last chance , but only if it is accompanied by the diplomatic advice that the study group also suggested . But like so much else about this war , the Bush administration failed to foresee what it would mean , failed to plan for the growing tide of veterans who would be in urgent need of medical and disability care .