Here’s another egregious example of why America needs to transform how we pay for long-term care.  NOW on PBS recently had a show that looked at the question:  "Who’s helping our wounded vets?"  Much of that help is coming from family members working to exhaustion and financial ruin to provide long-term care for their loved ones who have returned from the Middle East with life altering injuries.  It’s brutally sad, and it makes inaction in Washington D.C. among members of Congress all the more infuriating.

Above is a photo of American heros Anthony Thompson and his wife Ivonne Thompson.  Ivonne has a blog chronicling the progress of her husband who suffered a traumatic brain injury.

Amid this difficulty, check out Sunday’s Saint Paul Pioneer Press story on an innovative Veterans Affairs initiative that is working.