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The President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors has made some sweeping recommendations to improve the health care for wounded veterans, but would create a totally new and separate disability compensation program affecting only the combat-wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nine-member commission was presented with a great opportunity to make meaningful change to honor the promises made to veterans who are serving our nation. They bad the chance to do it right. They didn't do a complete job.
Better known as the Dole-Shalala commission, it submitted its 29-page final report on July 24, which contained six recommendations to Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) affecting the health care and disability rating system for veterans.
While most recommendations apparently will accommodate the health care needs of veterans and their families, those dealing with disability compensation would deny them the honorable system of fair and equitable compensation for disability in... |
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