Talking hot dogs in Hanoi with President Obama
The 10 Best Quotes from President Obama’s Dinner
Conversation with Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown S08E01 Hanoi HD
Giving life to final Dreams: Serving terminally-ill
adults and their families by providing end-of-life Dreams that offer
inspiration, comfort and closure.
Dreams for Veterans: If you served, you can Dream. Dreams not only serve veterans, but also
bring comfort and peace to their loved ones and caregivers. Dreams play a
critical role in the special end-of-life care that focuses on improving quality
of life for veterans and their families.
National World War I Museum and Memorial to
Host Official United States World War I Centennial Commemoration Event to be
Held April 6, 2017
AMERICAN MILITARY RETIREES ASSOCIATION NATIONAL
CONVENTION June 9-10, 2017
Falsified VA Wait Times Data Prevented Access To Veterans
Choice
Shulkin proposes eliminating 40-mile, 30-day rule for
non-VA care
Tester, Franken, Van Hollen, Hassan, Klobuchar Introduce
Bill to Strengthen Education for America’s Troops and Veterans
VA to Begin Processing Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Claims
Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants US
6630507 B1
Charles Liteky’s “Renunciation” – the Story About a
Pilgrimage
Veteran Wins $2.5M Prostate Cancer Case
Co-founder of Georgia-based Waffle House chain dies at 97
FRA Today February 2017
FRA Today March 2017
Mortality study of civilian employees exposed to
contaminated drinking water at USMC Base Camp Lejeune: a retrospective cohort
study.
Parking Lot Suicides: Veterans Found Dead In VA Parking
Lots
Understaffed VA Mental Health Program To Expand Services
Study of U.S. Navy healthcare personnel finds higher PTSD
risk among women than men
Report: VA Inaccurately Tracking Veteran Wait Times in
N.C., Va.
VA partners with community organization to end veteran
homelessness: Adopt-a-VA allows community to help
Army veteran walks across U.S. to raise suicide awareness
2 Vets Win Agent Orange Exposure Cases from Okinawa
Blades of Thunder: Book One (Volume 1) Paperback – June 17, 2015
New Law Would Allow Financially Incompetent Veterans To
Own Firearms Again
World War I and American Art: The first major exhibition
devoted to exploring the ways in which American artists reacted to the First
World War
VA Establishes Commission to Recommend Under Secretary
for Benefits
https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2870
Canandaigua VA psychiatrist charged with fraud
ADA Updates Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes:
Metformin should be initiated at the time of T2DM diagnosis unless there are
contraindications
Brain-Altering Science and the Search for a New Normal:
An electrical implant known as a deep-brain stimulator is giving some patients
a new start.
Ex-Generals Use Veteran Suicide Hysteria To Oppose Second
Amendment Bill
Amazing Grace Hopper
Legacy Scholarship: The Legacy
Scholarship ensures higher education is possible for children of post 9/11
veterans.
Dependents Education Assistance
Program
Adopt-a-VA gives new meaning to
service as community organizations partner to serve those who have served us.
Give an Hour™ is a nonprofit 501(c)(3), founded in
September 2005 by Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a psychologist in the Washington,
D.C., area. The organization’s mission is to harness the expertise and
generosity of volunteer mental health professionals capable of responding to
both acute and chronic conditions that arise within our society. Currently, GAH
is dedicated to meeting the mental health needs of the troops and families
affected by their time of service. We provide counseling to individuals,
couples and families, and children and adolescents.
VA To Provide Mental Health Care To Veterans with Less
Than Honorable Discharges
VA Protocol Reversed, President Trump Portrait Replaced
After Outcry
Awkward! Trump touts billionaire gathering to tackle
Veteran Affairs, VA secretary not attending
Important Office that Most People Have Never Heard –
Patient Safety
VA’s rule establishes presumption of service connection
for diseases associated with exposure to contaminants in water supply at Camp
Lejeune
VA offers free Military Sexual Trauma health care
services to Veterans regardless of service-connected status
There’s a Storm Coming
OPEN/CLOSED: Information Surrounding the Marines United
Website
VFW Action Corps Weekly, March 17,
2017
GAO Audit Shows VA Still At Risk,
Failing To Address Major Problems
Managing Risks and Improving VA
Health Care
VA fixes Veterans Crisis Line
Veterans Affairs Boasts About Opioid
Reduction Initiative Success
Legends of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
TREA has received information from
Congressional sources that the health care bill under consideration in the
House of Representatives DOES in fact affect veterans eligible for VA health
care, and TRICARE-eligible retirees.
Current law gives low-income
individuals a subsidy to help pay for their health insurance, while the new law
would instead give them a tax credit.
The credit would allow an individual to deduct a portion of their health
insurance premium from their taxes.
But as the bill stands now, any
veteran eligible for government healthcare (VA or TRICARE) would not receive a
tax credit if the veteran purchases private health insurance. It would
potentially force those veterans to use VA healthcare at a time when the VA
already does not have the capacity to treat its current enrollees. This would affect approximately 7 million
veterans. However, the actual number is unknown because many veterans use the
VA, but do not receive all of their care at the VA.
The important word is eligible-
because this could affect veterans who have never used the VA system and are
not enrolled.
This would predominantly affect
lower income veterans who would otherwise qualify for a tax credit, and any
veterans who fall into the priority group 8 category (non-service connected or
partially service connected)-which means they will wait at the back of the line
to get care through the VA, because a private healthcare plan may be
unaffordable without a tax credit.
Click on the last link at the end of
this message to take action and tell your Member of Congress!
The House of Representatives is
scheduled to vote on the bill at 4:00 on 3/24/17 (Eastern Time), so we urge you
to immediately contact your Representative and tell him or her that you are
opposed to any health care legislation that could reduce health care for
veterans.
Here are some press articles
discussing the issue:
http://www.newsmax.com/JohnGizzi/veterans-obamacare-healthcare-bill-gop/2017/03/23/id/780422/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/millions-of-veterans-could-be-ineligible-to-receive-tax-credits-under-republican-healthcare-plan/article/2618072
https://thefederalist.com/2017/03/22/last-minute-obamacare-amendment-hurt-millions-veterans-health-coverage/
Veterans Crisis Line Fails To
Collect Data On Post-Call Suicides, Ignores Earlier IG Audit
Dr. Edward Tick and Dr. John
Becknell will be teaching a certificate training program at Pacifica Graduate
Institute in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
Trumps 10 point plan to reform the
VA
VA’s modernization of the claims
process continues: More than 300,000 digitalized inactive-claim records removed
to improve process service
VA chaplain shares where healing
began for a fellow Vietnam Veteran’s family
Veterans: Sharing your experience
can save a life
Formerly homeless Veteran now scours
the streets hoping to help others
Wordcommandos: Encouraging Veterans
to write and submit their works
Ten years in recovery, Veteran is a
“Good Damn Man”
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14,
1945
Disabled Veterans to attend annual
Winter Sports Clinic hosted by VA and DAV
VFW Action Corps Weekly March 24, 2017
“Healthy Hiring: Enabling VA to Recruit and Retain Quality
Providers”
Legislative Hearing on 1461, The Veterans, Employees, And
Taxpayers Protection Act Of 2017
Marine Missing From World War II Accounted For (Tye)
Soldier Missing From World War II Accounted For
(Schlegel)
Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For (Hauterman)
Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For (Pelletier)
Marine Missing From World War II Accounted For (Spayd)
VVA Web Weekly March 17 2017
Rise in Reports of Sexual Assault at U.S. Navy, Army
Academies
House bill that would enable gun sales to many vets
deemed 'mentally incompetent' draws criticism
35th anniversary commemoration of the groundbreaking of
The Wall
Traumatic brain injury
Brain donation is critically needed
VVA 2017 National Convention, August 8 – 12, 2017, New
Orleans, Louisiana
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