Next week: Healthcare price tag, veterans and Trump nominees

House Republican leaders next week will continue to sell conservatives on their proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare as their controversial legislation churns through a third committee, and government number crunchers provide a much-anticipated price tag. The House Budget Committee will take up the American Health Care Act, introduced to staunch conservative criticism earlier this month.

Independent Budget Releases FY 2018 Report

… Congress, remains woefully inadequate to meet the ever-increasing demand for services both inside and outside the VA health care system, a fact acknowledged by VA officials. Additionally, the effects of sequestration and arbitrary budget caps are …

Why US flags at pro-Park rallies?

Since the parliament voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye in early December, Park’s staunch supporters have relentlessly taken to the streets with Korean flags in their hands to oppose her removal from office. While the Korean flag has become a symbol of their movement to defend the president, a seemingly unrelated flag has also been carried by many of the — mostly elderly — participants at the rallies: the US flag.

New Mexico may allow medical marijuana for all veterans

Extensive revisions to New Mexico’s medical marijuana program that would automatically allow all military veterans to qualify as patients are advancing in the state Legislature. The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed the proposed legislation on Wednesday despite objections from members to the veterans’ eligibility provisions.

New Mexico may allow medical marijuana for all veterans

Extensive revisions to New Mexico’s medical marijuana program that would automatically allow all military veterans to qualify as patients are advancing in the state Legislature. The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed the proposed legislation on Wednesday despite objections from members to the veterans’ eligibility provisions.

New Mexico may allow medical marijuana for all veterans

Extensive revisions to New Mexico’s medical marijuana program that would automatically allow all military veterans to qualify as patients are advancing in the state Legislature. The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed the proposed legislation on Wednesday despite objections from members to the veterans’ eligibility provisions.

Neglected veterans a priority for Shulkin

… General report issued in 2015 found that there were 800,000 stalled records for veterans who were enrolling in health care. Of that number, 307,000 belonged to veterans who died. A separate horror story reported last summer involved a vermin …

Camp Lejeune veterans eligible for disability

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing to grant disability benefits for eight diseases for any active-duty, reserve or National Guard personnel who served at least 30 days at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, between Aug. 1, 1953 and Dec. 31, 1987. Widows of these service personnel who died as a result of being afflicted with these diseases will also be eligible for death benefits, including a monthly stipend of approximately $1,250 and possible free health insurance for life.

new US agrees to pay billions to Marines affected by toxic water

The Obama administration has agreed to provide disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion to veterans who had been exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Beginning in March, the cash payouts from the Department of Veterans Affairs may supplement VA health care already being provided to eligible veterans stationed at the Marine base for at least 30 days cumulative between Aug. 1, 1953, and Dec. 31, 1987.

US agrees to pay billions to Marines affected by toxic water

After years of wait, veterans who had been exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina may now be able to receive a portion of government disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion. Beginning in March, the cash payouts from the Department of Veterans Affairs may supplement VA health care already being provided to eligible veterans stationed at the Marine base for at least 30 days cumulative between Aug. 1, 1953, and Dec. 31, 1987.

Obama administration to pay billions to Marines affected by toxic water

The Obama administration has agreed to provide disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion to veterans who had been exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Beginning in March, the cash payouts from the Department of Veterans Affairs may supplement VA health care already being provided to eligible veterans stationed at the Marine base for at least 30 days cumulative between Aug. 1, 1953, and Dec. 31, 1987.

Veterans Affairs Canada still understaffed despite Liberal pledge

Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr says the delays in processing, and the fact the department is not meeting its own service standards, can be attributed to an increase in the number of veterans claiming serving-related injuries. Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr says the delays in processing, and the fact the department is not meeting its own service standards, can be attributed to an increase in the number of veterans claiming serving-related injuries.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Study provides hope for troops

A type of talk therapy has shown strong, if initial, results in helping active-duty soldiers manage post-traumatic stress disorder, which has been associated with suicide. The federal government should accelerate secondary research to ensure the treatment’s efficacy, then double-time the therapy to hospitals and deployment zones.

The Agent Orange Widows Club

… husbands’ cancers. VA data shows that more than 500 Vietnam-era veterans have been diagnosed with glioblastoma at VA health facilities since 2000. That doesn’t include the unknown number diagnosed at private facilities. But brain cancer isn’t …

Yoga’s benefits being researched in many govt funded projects across USA

Various US universities-medical/clinical centers-hospitals are undertaking research projects exploring yoga’s possible help in treatment of various illnesses, according to a database published on US National Institutes of Health website. Funded/administered by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health , National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Cancer Institute, etc – all part of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; cost for some of these projects is listed at over half-a-million dollars each.

Richland veteran calls for Hepatitis C awareness

Then several years later, after Valimont left Nevada for the Tri-Cities, he got a phone call that stopped him in his tracks. The Las Vegas clinic where he’d gotten the colonoscopy used poor sterilization practices, exposing Valimont and dozens of other patients to Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C can lead to long-term health problems, including liver failure and even death.