War Vets Push For Affordable Insurance

War Vets Push For Affordable Insurance
New York Daily News
January 18, 2005

After losing a limb, mobility or eyesight to bullets or bombs in Iraq, some of the most gravely wounded U.S. soldiers face financial devastation.

Now, a young Army Sergeant moved by the plight of fellow amputees is seeking creation of a federal insurance law to provide timely help to the war's future wounded.

After Ryan Kelly's lower right leg was blown off in an ambush near Baghdad 18 months ago, he joined the steady stream of maimed soldiers going through Walter Reed Army Medical Center's eminent Ward 57 in Washington.

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