Wondering if anyone else has read the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) "Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023", and specifically option #21?
In short, it reads:
Narrow Eligibility for Veterans’ Disability Compensation by Excluding Certain Disabilities Unrelated to Military Duties
This option would cease veterans’ disability compensation for the seven medical conditions identified by GAO. Under the option, veterans currently receiving compensation for those conditions would have their compensation reduced or eliminated following a reevaluation, and veter- ans who applied for compensation for those conditions in the future would not be eligible for it. The option would not alter DoD’s disability compensation system, which focuses on fitness for military duties rather than compensation for disabilities.
Those conditions are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arteriosclerotic heart disease, hemorrhoids, uterine fibroids, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, and osteoarthritis.
Appears this report, which spans all government spending and revenue programs, is CBOs attempt to propose ways to implement Sequestration, and each option would have to go thru the legislative process. However, I don't know that for sure and I find this specific option alarming and disheartening.
In short, it reads:
Narrow Eligibility for Veterans’ Disability Compensation by Excluding Certain Disabilities Unrelated to Military Duties
This option would cease veterans’ disability compensation for the seven medical conditions identified by GAO. Under the option, veterans currently receiving compensation for those conditions would have their compensation reduced or eliminated following a reevaluation, and veter- ans who applied for compensation for those conditions in the future would not be eligible for it. The option would not alter DoD’s disability compensation system, which focuses on fitness for military duties rather than compensation for disabilities.
Those conditions are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arteriosclerotic heart disease, hemorrhoids, uterine fibroids, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, and osteoarthritis.
Appears this report, which spans all government spending and revenue programs, is CBOs attempt to propose ways to implement Sequestration, and each option would have to go thru the legislative process. However, I don't know that for sure and I find this specific option alarming and disheartening.