The focus of all his energy towards the "twenty-two veterans a day committing suicide" (Wells) is not even cited, nor is any of examples given about how the V.A. system specifically fails veterans. Wells essentially skewed the data so much that corrections had to be later put in place to provide the facts he left out. The corrections brings to light the amount of veteran suicides are composed of "70 percent...are among those aged 50 years and older", which Wells does not mention or acknowledge. That's a relatively large piece of data left out. Baker relates to the reader those who are part of the twenty-two are not only those recently coming back from war, but also veterans who have been back for years. Baker also further includes President Obama expressing that correcting the V.A. system "is only part of the problem", a point that does not seem to have came to Wells'
The focus of all his energy towards the "twenty-two veterans a day committing suicide" (Wells) is not even cited, nor is any of examples given about how the V.A. system specifically fails veterans. Wells essentially skewed the data so much that corrections had to be later put in place to provide the facts he left out. The corrections brings to light the amount of veteran suicides are composed of "70 percent...are among those aged 50 years and older", which Wells does not mention or acknowledge. That's a relatively large piece of data left out. Baker relates to the reader those who are part of the twenty-two are not only those recently coming back from war, but also veterans who have been back for years. Baker also further includes President Obama expressing that correcting the V.A. system "is only part of the problem", a point that does not seem to have came to Wells'