Saturday, September 25, 2010

Amid Cost Concerns, Senators Debate Adding New Diseases for Agent Orange Compensation

Amid Cost Concerns, Senators Debate Adding New Diseases for Agent Orange Compensation

Webb said in the letter to Shinseki, “The discussions were you could develop a chronological map overlay of where defoliants had been used, and then develop a nexus in someone’s service record on whether they had been in those areas.

From that you could say whether these conditions would be presumptively acquired.”

But many of the panelists at Thursday’s hearing said, that there’s little reliable data about what exposure was over forty years ago — therefore making it difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint causality. Oates agreed.

“Putting the burden back on the veteran to prove exposure when there was so much misuse of the project would be impossible.

Veterans can’t account for every moment and every place they were, they had a job to do,” he said to TAI.

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