Walter Reed isn’t the only problem in the country’s military health care system. The Washington Post today reports that problems are widespread. It naturally turns to a subject that brings the story close to Arkansas, VA hospitals.

Among the most aggrieved are veterans who have lived with the open secret of substandard, underfunded care in the 154 VA hospitals and hundreds of community health centers around the country. They vented their fury in thousands of e-mails and phone calls and in chat rooms.

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