Elizabeth Dole: “And once they connect, even with just one other person, one other caregiver, it is like magic.”

Right. Well, we know from our caregivers who are enrolled in Medicaid that the program provides valuable--it is an extra coverage or valuable supplement for some of the expenses that the VA program does not cover.

I hope that that piece of legislation is going to pass because if we want to foster a Nation that supports hidden heroes, all hidden heroes, these wonderful caregivers, then it is important to pass both pieces of legislation.

These caregivers are just as terrified. Just as isolated. Just as important to their veterans.

RAND's experts concluded that the most important factor to a wounded warrior's recovery or improvement was a well-supported caregiver.