President Joe Biden has signed veterans healthcare legislation that ends a long battle to expand benefits for troops who served near toxic “burn pits.”
were used as a disposal technique in Iraq and Afghanistan; however, 70% of disability claims involving exposure to the pits were denied by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“Veterans who have been sickened to the point of being unable to work, unable to take care of their families, won’t have to spend that time fighting the government to get the healthcare they earned,” said Jeremy Butler, head of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “This is monumental.”, husband and wife advocates for veterans healthcare who started the organization Burn Pits 360. After serving in Iraq, Le Roy Torres developed constrictive bronchitis, making breathing difficult.
And there’s more help for veterans from the Vietnam War. The legislation adds hypertension to a list of ailments that are presumed to be caused by exposure to Agent Orange, a herbicide used by the U.S. military to clear vegetation.
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