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Will ‘BRAC for VA’ lead to veterans hospital closures or building more clinics?
Now, federal officials are about to see if a BRAC for the Department of Veterans Affairs will prove just as controversial. VA officials later this month are expected to name the nine individuals who will serve on the department’s Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission, a congressionally mandated panel that will recommend “actions to modernize or realign a…
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VA would be forced to add three illnesses to Agent Orange presumptive list under Senate-passed plan
Photo: Vietnamese and American troops conduct a combined patrol in the Mekong Delta on on April 8, 1967. (Horst Faas/AP) Senate lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to add three serious illnesses — bladder cancer, hypothyroidism and Parkinson’s-like symptoms — to the list of conditions presumed linked to chemical defoliant exposure in Vietnam. The…
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