Posted on 12/14/2022 7:19:37 AM PST by Red Badger
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It is estimated that one in three Veterans had toxic exposures during their active duty.
From burn pits and Agent Orange to nuclear waste and contaminated groundwater, these environmental hazard exposures can adversely impact Veterans’ health long after their service.
The PACT Act, signed into law Aug. 10, 2022, expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to burn pits and potentially toxic substances. It is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed Veterans in more than 30 years. The act ensures Veterans exposed to toxins are screened and get the best clinical care possible.
The PACT Act also helps foster a cancer research community within VA that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and the needs of the Veteran.
Aligning support
I recently sat down with Dr. Danielle Carnival, White House Cancer Moonshot coordinator, to discuss how VA and Cancer Moonshot are aligned to support the PACT Act and Veterans with environmental exposures.
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We discussed how the PACT Act expands health care eligibility to several groups of Veterans, including Vietnam era, Gulf War era and Post-9/11 combat Veterans. It also adds more than 20 burn pit and toxic-exposure-related conditions to VA’s military service presumption list, including several different types of cancers.
This means if you have been diagnosed with one of these conditions, VA assumes that toxic exposure during your military service led to the diagnosis.
The added cancers are:
Brain cancer
Gastrointestinal cancer of any type
Glioblastoma
Head cancer of any type
Kidney cancer
Lymphoma of any type
Melanoma
Neck cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Reproductive cancer of any type, including breast cancer and prostate cancer
Respiratory (breathing-related) cancer of any type
What this means for you
“The PACT Act is transformational for Veterans who may need cancer care,” said Dr. Michael Kelley, VHA national executive program director for Oncology. “These men and women have served their country with bravery and honor. Thanks to this legislation, we can provide them with best-in-class cancer care. VA is ready to support Veterans facing a cancer diagnosis.”
In addition to expanding the list of presumptive cancers, the act strengthens the Cancer Moonshot effort to address rare cancers which make up approximately 25% of all cancer diagnoses at VA. If a Veteran is diagnosed with a rare cancer or a common cancer with an unusual or unique symptom, VA can support them.
President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot program aims to reduce the number of cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years. Moonshot is a singularly uniting force behind research, clinical care, patient stories and caregivers.
You can take advantage of the PACT Act right now by getting screened for toxic exposure at your local VA. We urge all Veterans to file claims so we can provide the benefits and care they have earned and deserve.
To learn more, visit: The PACT Act And Your VA Benefits | Veterans Affairs.
Why (and how) does one expose a health benefit to a burn pit?
I pointed something out to my sister...
republiCAN’Ts fight every benefit that is offered to the Veterans...
While the democommie’s PASS every benefit to the veterans...
What is wrong with this picture?
Congress passed a law stating that any Vietnam Veteran who had leukemia would automatically have that considered to be service connected.
My friend Randy was a Vietnam Veteran who had leukemia.
The people at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) determined that it wasn’t service connected.
They just ignored the law.
They are still working.
Randy died from his leukemia.
Screw the VBA.
Toxic substance would be the current (b)administration.
What's not to understand?
I wonder if Pfizer and Moderna will pay the VA and DOD when vaccine injuries are declared a presumptive disability?
VA is separate from missile systems.
It gets its own budget
What’s not to understand?
There is no evidence such things happen beyond the clinical trial norms measured before distribution of Sputnik, Sinovac, Covaxin, Moderna or Pfizer. All vaccines have reactions in some small % of the population. ALL of them, including Tetanus, Hepatitis, Diptheria, Typhoid or whatever, and each individual country performs their own measurement prior to distribution.
Now, the important part of this article (which had nothing to do with your wacko vax obsession) is that the VA has $XXXXX of budget. They can provide healthcare for veterans who fall into certain categories. They don’t have enough money to provide healthcare to every person who ever watched a war movie.
I notice they are declaring disability instantly for any diagnosis of cancer and those cancers don’t have much life expectancy. This is what saves their budget. This looks like a PR stunt, not an actual expansion of benefits. They expect the recipients of these categories to die off soon.
I know other vets who are NOT fans of the VA. I am. I scoped out complaints and praise recorded various places. The praise was from guys who found how disciplined the VA system is in scheduling an appointment and then following up relentlessly. The complaints were from guys who were angry that appointments were hard to schedule, because of long wait queues on the phone.
Then I went and scoped out complaints and praise of local civilian hospitals. Praise was for some doc a patient has seen for years. Complaints were about getting blood vials names mixed up, or getting a phone call about a diagnosis for which the person never did any testing.
The VA does quite a lot with the money they have. And I actually went and scoped out the totals. The money is nearly exactly the same % of gov’t spending as veterans are a % of the total population.
Hard to find anything wrong with that.
How about chronic Burn Bag exposure?
We’ve added these 5 new locations to the list of presumptive locations: Any U.S. or Royal Thai military base in Thailand from January 9, 1962, through June 30, 1976
Laos from December 1, 1965, through September 30, 1969 Cambodia at Mimot or Krek, Kampong Cham Province from April 16, 1969, through April 30, 1969
Guam or American Samoa or in the territorial waters off of Guam or American Samoa from January 9, 1962, through July 31, 1980
Johnston Atoll or on a ship that called at Johnston Atoll from January 1, 1972, through September 30, 1977
If you served on active duty in any of these locations, we’ll automatically assume (or “presume”) that you had exposure to Agent Orange.
And it extends presumption to my service on Guam.
Whether Guam is the origin of my metastatic prostate cancer is unknown to me.
But the US Government, by law, presumes my time on Guam is the proximate cause.
100% disability.
Oh, and a death sentence.
“They just ignored the law.”
They’ll do that if you don’t stand up for yourself.
BUT THAT SHOULD NOT BE A REQUIREMENT TO RECEIVE BENEFITS DUE!
There’s an armed guard there.
They aren’t afraid of Veterans.
They do whatever they want.
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