Posted on 12/23/2020 7:33:08 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Marine veteran Brian Tally has been fighting to change Department of Veterans Affairs policy for two-and-a-half-years, and his bill is the closest it has ever been to becoming law after it passed the Senate on Wednesday.
Tally’s namesake “Tally Bill” seeks to change a 74-year-old legal loophole that shields VA contractors from malpractice. His bill took shape as one of many amendments in S.Amdt.2696, which was made to a House of Representatives bill, H.R.7105. The next step is another vote in the House to approve the Senate’s amendments, and then the bill heads to President Trump’s desk. Tally’s amendment requires the VA to provide a recommendation for legal representation, and the VA doctor’s employment status within 30 days of filing a VA claim.
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"In an attempt to change the law, Tally has written his own bill. “I hand-delivered the bill to Congress and now it’s an active bill No. 7105 and one of the top five bills in the country,” he said, adding that he met with 33 members of Congress, with 100 percent bipartisan support."
Also, the Feres Doctrine shouldn’t apply outside of battlefield medicine.
“Oops,” doesn’t quite cover military medical malpractice consequences.
He is amazing.
Thank you for posting
My wife was an MD at the VA for over 30 years as a psychiatrist as an employee.
In public practice you can’t take high risk suicide patients as if they are successful, the family can easily sue you for malpractice and win.
She told me that she could not see these high risk patients as an independent contractor and there are not enough VA employee psychiatrists. We can’t abandon the vets.
When I first met her, she had a handful of 45 auto bullets in her desk drawer. She had convinced a suicidal vet to give her the bullets from his gun.
It’s super hard to get VA DR’s now. This would make it even harder and much more costly.
VA medicine needs to be an insurance card.
Niece is an emergency room doctor in the VA in Detroit and the vast majority of her patients are family members with entitlement attitudes.
If you eliminate the use abuse of the medical services then better attention can be given to the veterans with military related disabilities who deserve it.
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