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More Veterans Exposed to Toxic Water Receive Disability Status
(By - Crystal Shepeard, www.care2.com)
In 2012, President Barack Obama signed a law that provided health care to thousands of Marine veterans and their families who suffered illnesses linked to contaminated drinking water at a North Carolina Marine base. Due to bureaucratic red tape at Veterans Affairs, it would still take three more years before the VA would finalize the guidelines that would allow the law – the Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 — to take full effect. It was a journey that began more than 30 years ago. Read more…
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