Twenty-five Republican senators who previously supported a bipartisan bill to expand health care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits reversed their stance on Thursday.
also identified cases of constrictive bronchiolitis — a rare but potentially fatal lung condition — among previously healthy soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The PACT Act proposes adding lung, brain, kidney, gastrointestinal and other cancers to the list of illnesses eligible for expanded health care coverage."The bipartisan bill will help us advance one of the department’s top priorities: getting more veterans into VA care," McDonough."President Biden has also been clear about his commitment to getting more VA health care to veterans impacted by toxic exposures, which is why we need Congress to send the PACT Act to his desk.
"Humans were not designed to deal with exposure to dioxins," he said."There’s no safe exposure limit."