Why Sen. Pat Toomey did the right thing in stopping the burn pit bill
AUGUST 02, 2022 02:13 PM
BY
FREDERICO BARTELS
[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight how a new bill regarding veterans' healthcare would open the door to wasteful government spending without really addressing veterans' needs.]
Sen. Pat Toomey, (R-PA), was right last week to stop legislation that would have presumed a host of health conditions are linked to American service members’ exposure to burn pits .
First, Toomey was right because the automatic presumption that many illnesses suffered by veterans are connected to burn pit exposure (ranging from chronic sinusitis to melanoma and any type of reproductive cancer) represents a failure of science. Further, the bill would have allowed the secretary of veterans affairs to expand that list in the future.
As the Government Accountability Office has stated , the “effects from exposing individuals to burn pit emissions were not well understood, and the Department of Defense (DOD) had not fully assessed the health risks associated with the use of burn pits.”
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