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Military Times
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee members quickly passed a comprehensive overhaul of the veterans benefits appeals process on Wednesday, setting up what they hope will be a flurry of major advances on veterans issues before the August congressional recess.
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Veterans Association of America wants to know...
Has the VA Choice Program for veterans helped ease your medical options for outside service?
- Yes it does, it has helped me seek other opportunities.
- No, I don't see a difference in this program.
- I'm somewhat indifferent about the service since this was created.
- I think the program is a work in progress as they need to sort out a number of issues.
Please provide your unique response as we take each them very seriously..
As a reminder, we assess all answers with the utmost of care and consideration. Survey results revealed in next week's VAA Dispatch.
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June 20, 27 and July 5 survey results: Has it been easier or more difficult to acquire the necessary services through this administration's bold effort to help veterans?
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Military Times
When they return from legislative recess next week, lawmakers will have only a few days to address financial problems with the Veterans Affairs Choice program before users start to see significant problems.
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The Embry-Riddle Newsroom
Joseph Scanlan loved computers growing up. He built a few of his own, spent time in dedicated IT courses while in high school and even had plans to study computer science at the University of Minnesota.
Instead, Scanlan enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After five years of service, he's rediscovered his love of computers thanks to the Microsoft Software & Systems Academy.
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Four month average turn around with the VA’s Pension with Aid and Attendance
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Knoxville News Sentinel
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing a secure platform for researchers to access the health care data of 22.5 million military veterans, accelerating the timeline for medical research breakthroughs.
Scientists from ORNL's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division started building the platform as part of the laboratory's involvement in a national partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Energy Department.
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Stars and Stripes
The rule is usually discovered by parents bracing for their child to die.
Already consumed by tragedy, these military families are confronted with a brutal choice: Elect hospice to ease your child's suffering or choose treatment to keep fighting for your child's life.
Under the military's Tricare health insurance program, they can't do both.
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Federal News Radio
Come next year, military retirees and family members might be required to kick in a few extra dollars when filling their drug prescriptions in order to fund a benefit program for military widows and widowers that's perilously close to running out of money.
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Axios
Roughly 20 military veterans have announced they are planning to run as Democrats for the House of Representatives next year — a result of a push by the Democratic Party to win back the 24 seats needed to secure the House majority in the Midterm elections, reports The New York Times.
Although most of the vets were recruited by the party, many told NYT they feel it's their duty to run for office, as they believe Trump's policies threaten the nation's values and national security.
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Futurity
Substantially more U.S. veterans are using hospice following a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs initiative to improve care at the end of life.
The VA wanted to know the effects of its four-year Comprehensive End-of-Life Care initiative, which began in 2009.
The findings of a new study, published in Health Affairs, show that the initiative encouraged more hospice use among military veterans, and that the growth outpaced the rate of increase among demographically comparable members of the public receiving Medicare.
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