Sound off: views of VFW members on topics of interest veterans.
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04
Publication Title: VFW Magazine
Format: Online

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August's Question:

Should VA be responsible for providing care for age-related medical conditions if they are not service-connected?

Traditionally, VA rare lure been viewed as primarily designed to cover the needs of veterans disabled on duty or whose health was permanently damaged while serving their country. Veterans with non-service-connected medical problems have been treated on a discretionary basis.

I thought a veteran was a person who served his country whether he was injured or not. If this is not so, then the hospitals should be changed from "veterans hospitals" to "service-connected disability hospitals."

We should not shut the door on any person...



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