After a full 2-year lobbying and protest
effort, every week, and in some cases
every day in loading advocacies into
the 3-part Public Comment periods of
the Institute of Medicine, and the
1-part Public Comment period of the
Veterans Disability Commission, the
Institute of Medicine has now held
it's national Release presentation
for it's findings on the VA Presumptive
Service Connected statusing system
at the early August session of
this months Commission (just last
week from this Blog).

The Institute of Medicine has
denounced the entire existing VA
Presumptive system and found in
favor of the extensive lobbying
from The Fort McClellan Veterans.

I have attempted to post 2 of the
diagrams included in the final
national study report, however,
the Forum software here is not
very good for display photos and
the result was not readable.

The official slides of this crushing
victory by the Fort McClellan
Veterans against the VA will
soon be posted at the Commission's
official website later on this
week on the MINUTES Page for
August:
http://www.vetscommission.org

This around the clock lobbying effort
at the Instute of Medicine for the
Presumptive national study review
was supplemented by email drives
both from readers here at Vets
For Justice and other independent
Email lists of other Veterans
Advocates who were glad to lend a
hand to push this victory announcement
through.

The old and existing model for
obtaining patient class recognition
and Presumptive service connected
statusing for entire groups of
chemical exposure Veterans involves
forcing sick and injured Veterans
to trek back and forth to Washington
DC to lobby for an Act of Congress
on our nations Capitol Hill to have
a legislative declaration made
for patient class recognignition
for Veterans.

Under the new model designed by
the Institute of Medicine, the
Presumptive SC statusing will now
be available for all Veterans to
make an application under right
at the VA agency. The new model
calls for 2 independent bodies
to work in conjunction with the
VA Secretary's Office, one called
a Presumptive Advisory Board, and
the other called a Presumptive
Science Review Board.

Comp and Pen is the very last
on the food chain and this
drastically reduces the role
of Comp & Pen to do little more
than rubber-stamp the findings
of the 2 independent Reviewing
authorities.

A new 4-part rating scheme has
been developed, to be issued
by the Science Review Board.
This 4-part rating scheme will
be the Veterans Presumptive Rating
which will be separate from and
different the usual disability
percentage rating which is normally
issued by Comp and Pen.

Veterans will no longer be forced
to become their own science search
institution, the Science Review
Board is charged with the mission
to seek out, collect, gather,
and interpret all available sciences
regarding whatever chemical or
hazardous exposures the applying
Veteran is seeking.

It is no small task to take
down an existing part of the VA
agency, but the Fort McClellan
Veterans are now celebrating in
their homes with a victory sweeter
than pie.

The Fort McClellan Veterans will
be the very last chemical exposure
group to pass through the broken,
dysfunctional, and archaic system
of VA's Presumptive Service Connected
statusing for groups of Veteran
medical patients.

We are one more major step closer
to the final victories we have
been lobbying for at the Veterans
Disability Commission, as the
sessions dwindle down in content
now mostly to consist of open
discussions and deliberations
of the Commissioners themselves
on the last and final loose ends
which they haven't covered.

They are near a publishing date
for their books now and very
little is going on in the sessions
themselves as they get into
position to deliver the books
to Congress, still holding
to their October 1, 2007 delivery
date.

The for sale and published version
of the Institute of Medicine's
Presumptive Study and Review
should go on sale this week
at their official website at:
http://www.iom.edu

Please know, there were a total
of 32 people involved in this
2-year Institute of Medicine
study. These people were top
of the line Toxicologists,
Neurologists, medical practitioners
of all walks, (some who are world
reknowned), lawyers, and IOM
staff people.

You will no longer see Congress
involved in Presumptive statusing
efforts of Veterans because they
have indicated in the middle of
the IOM probe, that they no longer
want responsibility for it. Congress
has said that the exposure industry
has become too complicated for them
and they are no longer interested
in being charged with this authority.

A staffer from the Senate Veterans
Affairs Committee sat in the back
of the room for the entire duration
of the Institute of Medicine's
Release presentation. Afterwards,
the IOM was treated like Rock Stars
by all who were attending the session
in person. I had a chance to shake
hands and thank all of the IOM
people on behalf of the Fort
McClellan Veterans.

In many ways, the release of this
national study for all Veterans
to benefit from, effectively puts
down all the fake, phoney, lying,
moronic, false, and buffoonish
disinformation that has been
spread all over the internet
about the efforts and goals of
the Fort McClellan Veterans.

You will see our trademark issues
embedded all throughout the final
study report by the IOM.

Everything we lobbied for we did
get, and every gripe we had lodged
about the existing Presumptive
system has now been officially
denounced and stands for all
history to know about it.

This official review and study on
the Presumptive Overhaul at the
VA will likely sail on ratification
by Congress because it was a contracted
study by the Commission involving
thousands of dollars to develop.

We are pleased beyond words that
this IOM study was issued in favor
of the Veterans and in opposition
to the VA, and that no other Veterans
patient group in the country will
EVER have to go through again what
we were put through in the pursuit
of justice for the Fort McClellan
Veterans.