Recently, the United States senate had the opportunity in
the form of legislation to extend benefits to us navy veterans who served in
Vietnam and developed cancers and other diseases as a result of exposure to
Agent Orange, the U.S. Senate was
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Mike Lee (R-UT) |
poised to pass this bill. They said, well,
yeah, these people served in Vietnam. They were exposed to this. They’re now
developing debilitating diseases. Tens of thousands have already died from it,
so why wouldn’t we extend these benefits to members of the navy when we’re
giving it to the army and the marines and everybody else? The navy deserves it
just as much. They had just as much exposure and then Republicans in the Senate
said, I don’t want to do it, and that’s what happened. That’s where the bill
died. Republicans didn’t want to give these us navy veterans suffering from
cancers because of their exposure to Agent Orange that the United States
military dropped.
They didn’t want to cover their healthcare after they were
the ones who gave them
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Mike Enzi (R-MT) |
cancer. That’s what happened. In case you’re not
familiar with Agent Orange, let me go ahead and run through this massive list,
and this is actually only a partial list of some of the diseases and cancers
that Agent Orange has been known to cause a soft tissue sarcoma, non Hodgkin
Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, respiratory
cancers including lung, bronchus, trachea and larynx, prostate cancer, multiple
Myeloma, bladder cancer, um, and overall Vietnam veterans as a whole have
increased rates of cancer, nerve, digestive skin, respiratory disorders. The
CDC says that in particular there’s higher rates of acute chronic leukemia, Hodgkin’s
lymphoma, non Hodgkin’s lymphoma, throat cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer,
colon cancer, ischemic heart disease, soft tissue sarcoma and liver cancer, all
from this chemical that was primarily made by us chemical companies, Dow
Chemical and Monsanto.
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