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As all here know, if and when the Secretary adds any new AO presumptives due to the NAM ( formerly IOM) 2014 report it will be the last possible chance to have any other AO conditions added.
Yesterday I got two updates:
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/shulkin-says-he-would-if-he-could-expand-agent-orange-related-health-care-1.518135
http://www.thenewstribune.com/latest-news/article206376404.html
Possible additions still include bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, and Parkinsonian symptoms ( as compared to full flown Parkinson -already a AO presumptive.
However, the VA has stated in the past that hypertension and stroke could be potential AO disabilities too.I guess the Secretary ,in this artcle forgot about the "limited -suggestive" association that the IOM found in it's 2010 Update, not that this limited suggestive category also has applied to hypertension, in the IOM Updates of 2006,2008, and 2010 .
The second article brings up the cost factor found in the Philpott article.
What cost factor? Vietnam veterans are dying and that also means their spouses and survivors are elderly and dying too!
My position is that any veteran who has ischemic heart disease, awarded by VA do to AO exposure, and who also has suffered a stroke, ischemic in nature, should be awarded for the stroke , as due to AO.
I am writing to the Secretary to get his full medicale rationale ( since he is a doctor) as to how an ischemic stroke that occurs in a veteran who also has documentd AO IHD, could Not be an obvious AO presumptive.
It would cost a veteran in that case thousands to get an acceptable IMO to prove the CVA is secondary to the IHD, yet it just makes common sense that an ischemic heart would cause an ischemic stroke of the brain.
I am not considering Hemmorhagic stroke as that could have other causes not related tyo IHD.
Has anyone here with any disability that could possibly be related to their AO exposure, and that has been found to have ( per IOM /NAM reports ) a limited but suggestive association to Agent Orange, written to the Secretary to make their case as to why their disability should become an AO Presumptive?
"Limited" and " suggestive evidence" is why we have most if not all of the AO presumptives we have now, per past IOM and now NAM reports.
If anyone wants Secretary Shulkin's address ( I always send President Trump a copy of any letter to the Sec, with a brief cover letter)
They are here under a search or I can post those addresses again. Some input and pressure from veterans themselves might get this whole thing moving.
I never saw new presumptives take this long to be considered by the VA. And time is our enemy.
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