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VFW Washington Weekly - August 7, 2009
Posted at 09:51 AM on Monday, August 10, 2009 by dist1
In This Issue:
1. VFW Protects Health Care Programs
2. Vet Bills Update
3. New GI Bill Benefit Begins
4. Senate Hearing on Disability Compensation
5. Congress on Recess
1. VFW Protects Health Care Programs: VFW is working closely with House leadership to ensure national health care reform legislation does not change the way veterans, military retirees and their families receive their health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs or the military's TRICARE program. Key VFW-supported amendments adopted by the House include:
- Exclude TRICARE from all reform movements;
- Exclude VA health care from all reform movement, and maintain the VA secretary's current authority to operate the organization as he deems appropriate.
- Give veterans using VA health care the option of purchasing additional insurance under the new national health care plan. This would expand, not restrict, health care coverage available to them and their families;
VFW will continue to work closely with Congress to ensure that neither VA nor TRICARE are adversely affected under the national health care reform proposal. We have also received assurances from the President that veterans and servicemembers will be safeguarded under any bill passed by Congress.
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