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Once a soldier, always a dependent.

C H Sommers
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Why are veterans entitled to special benefits, such as free medical care? Not because such a benefit is an inducement to military service, or because a soldier accepts risk. Rather, the relationship of the Army, to use one service as an example, to a soldier is like that of a parent to a child. The right to health care, even carried beyond the term of service, is an extension of this quasi-familial relationship.

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Compensation and RedressDelivery of Health CareFederal GovernmentHumansMoral ObligationsPaternalismPatient AdvocacySocial JusticeUnited StatesUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsVeteransDepartment of the ArmyHealth Care and Public HealthJournal Article

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C H Sommers. 1986. Once a soldier, always a dependent.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3528052/

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