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"Several years after a scientific body recommended that the Department of Veterans Affairs consider adding four conditions — bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, hypertension and Parkinson's-like symptoms — to the list of qualifying diseases tied to Agent Orange, affected veterans may soon find out whether they are eligible for disability compensation and VA health care. During a Senate Veterans Affairs hearing March 26 on the VA budget, Dr. Richard Stone, the executive in charge of the Veterans Health Administration, said a decision on the three illnesses likely would come in the next 90 days. Read more about upcoming decision on Military.com."
https://www.military.com/military-report/va-announce-decision-new-agent-orange-presumptive-conditions.html
( the Hypertension may or may not become presumptive at all. The three disabilities above might well become presumptive.
This is still all up in the air until Secretary Wilkie makes a decision.
Now is the time, if you have any of the three disabilities above, and served incountry Vietnam, or can prove exposure eslewhere, to think about gathering your medical records, from diagnosis to current treatment records, and also, if you have been denied in the past by VA for bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, and Parkinson's like symptoms, and these appear as NSC ( not service connected with a NSC rating) on any past VA rating sheet or decision, and if Nehmer kicks in with Footnote One, ( I hope it will but that has not been determined yet) , then those records you took the time to gather,would help you get the best EED if the VA awards your claim, under the new presumptives.
If you access records from your medical record stack, it is best to make a copy of it and put the original back into the stack- or you can simply Tab anything in your medical records with a bright sticky or tab, that could be a record needed at some point for the best EED for the claim.
This news on top of the Blue Water Procopio victory ( there is another case pending as well at CAVC regarding this issue) might cause a flood of AO claims, as the 2010 regulations did.
We dont have any firm info yet on the 3 proposed presumptives. The HBP is explained in the Military.com link.
I still feel any vet with an ischemic stroke, who also had AO Ischemic heart disease granted under 2010 Nehmer, should be considered having a AO presumptive, as a separate disability due to their IHD, and I will write to the Secretary again about that. IHD can led to ischemia of brain. That is an established medical fact.Then again so can HBP.
Stroke was one of the other disabilities that NAM (formerly IOM) reviewed.
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Berta
Buck, as many here know, the AO issue has been the most important veteran's issue of my life-since 1991. But these days it is equal in importance to how I am trying to change VA policy with the
GBArmy
So...June has come and gone. So has July. No new announcement from Wilkie or the VA about a decision on new A.O. presumptives? That is pretty sad. They get caught with their hand in the cookie jar and
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I sent you a p.m. I hope your wife gets better and that strain does not last for long.
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