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VA To Roll Out New Claims Appeals Process

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“In what Department of Veterans Affairs officials are calling the biggest change to its appeals process in decades, the department will launch a new system for veterans challenging their disability claims decisions.”

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“The new process gives veterans three options for contesting their claims, with…

Editor’s Note: More than $1 billion has been invested in Military Services to Veterans Administration medical record interoperability in recent years but with mixed results. At issue is the seamless medical transition of active-duty troops and reservists to VA care. Veterans have long lamented missing records, repeated exams and frustrating inefficiencies with the dueling department systems. …

A Combat and Defense Company Veteran Connects the Dots For Veterans Day 2017

  U.S. Wars and Healthcare For Those Who Fight Them

“Rose Covered Glasses” by Ken Larson

FACTS:

The U.S. has spent $ Billions on warfare and invasion in the Middle East and many other world locations, sacrificing young soldiers lives in the name of security and military industrial complex profits. 

The 5 largest U.S.  weapons production and services companies are experiencing the best years in…

VIDEO: Obama ‘Madder Than Hell’ Over Veterans Issues, Aide Says

On CBS, Chief of Staff Denis McDonaugh insisted the president is riled up about severe backlog and falsified documents at Veterans Affairs.

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The VA is redefining claims to cut down on the backlog

We all know that the Veterans Affairs Department is swamped with claims from veterans for compensation, pension, education claims and appeals. Today, there are as many as 1.7 million of these types of claims in the VA system.

Yet, Diana Rubens, VA deputy under secretary for field operations, later opened her testimony before a panel drawn from several veterans service organizations by noting that…