Thursday, April 09, 2009

Obama Announces New Improved Veteran's Administration

Obama talks about creating one unified health record for veterans, who've found it hard to get all the benefits available to them. A veteran will no longer have to walk paper work from the Department of Defense to the VA. It will be electronically transferred. All VA sites will have access to a veteran's medical record.
Veteran care will be funded in a timely and predictable fashion from year to year, which will improve care, Obama said. Funding will increase $25 billion over the next five years. New funding will offer better mental health screening. There are 154,000 vets that are homeless. The new budget will aim to prevent a single vet from being homeless.
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