Bring on the ambulance chasing trial lawyers folks!
GI’s are not trying to sue anyone but it would be nice after they had guys using triclorethene (for example) without gloves or masks to find them and determine if they are suffering from higher incidents of cancers and or neurological disorders..
If some illegal alien piece of crap can get thousands in medical benifits.. just by walking into an emergency room and declaring they have chest pain.. Why is it wrong to want to see GIs compensated for serious illness and disabilities related to their service?
No one is tracking the whereabouts and status of millions of Veterans. No consolodated medical database to look for trends.. No effort to quantify and record the men by assignment and duty station..
No accident, none of that is happeneing in any meaningful manner..
Tricare and Tricare Prime.. pays less than medicare..
has three programs for payment.. Slow Pay, Low Pay and No Pay insuring doctors will more often than not refuse to provide care to disabled retired GIs.
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The trial lawyers already got their windfall; this lawsuit came in the 1980’s I believe. The vets, as per US protocol, received nothing. If they did receive a “settlement†it was minuscule in the overall scheme of things. My father is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 18 months in one of the most heavily sprayed areas-the iron triangle. Though he has never smoked a day in his life, he has a diagnosis of COPD; he needs supplemental o2 to breath. He was other “cluster†symptoms that no Dr. can make sense of. We’ve spent years researching this, and are convinced that he is dying because of Agent Orange exposure. I really just wished that our government would do better than give lip service to vets.