Daniel Gade and Daniel Huang’s recently released book, “Wounding Warriors: How Bad Policy Makes Veterans Sicker and Poorer,” can be summed in one simple sentence: Veterans respond to incentives, just like every human on this planet.

The book addresses the veterans benefit system, which is managed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is a topic that Gade knows well—he is a disabled veteran himself who navigated the system to successful reintegration. He even credits his own experiences at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as the origin of the book.