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PARALYZED VETERANS OFFICIAL CALLS DOLE-SHALALA

REPORT "A BIT UTOPIAN" -- William Rollins Jr., field services

director for the PVA, says he likes some of the

recommendations but other reforms are missing.

 

 

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Advocate Scrutinizes Report on Veterans' Care

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William Rollins Jr., field services director for Paralyzed Veterans of America, says he likes some of the recommendations in a presidential committee report released Wednesday — such as improving support for families of wounded troops.

But he says other reforms are missing, including automation of veterans' benefits that would do away with lengthy application forms.

Rollins, who testified in May before the Dole-Shalala presidential commission on veterans' care, talks with Michele Norris. The commission's final report was released Wednesday.

 

NOTE:  Rollins said that it is “probably a bit utopian to think that everything will be fundamentally changed.” He noted that several of his recommendations—that all troops be automatically signed up for VA care after they leave the military, and that veterans with serious injuries be automatically signed up for certain benefits appropriate to the injury—had been left out of the Dole-Shalala report.

 

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