FY 1992 Budget for Veterans Benefits and Services: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, February 20 and 21, 1991 |
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active duty additional FTEES Administration Administration's American Legion AMVETS areas backlog beds Benefits Programs Bob Stump Budget Reconciliation Act budget request Chairman clinical clozapine Committee Congress construction cost current services delivery dental Department of Veterans disabled veterans dollars DVOP eligibility employees entitlement equipment estimated facilities FEBRUARY 20 federal fiscal year 1992 FY 1992 budget geriatric health care system HOLSINGER hospital improve increase Independent Budget recommends inflation initiatives inpatient Insurance legislation Loan Guaranty medical centers needs nursing home OBRA Office Operation Desert Storm outpatient patients percent Persian Gulf personnel physicians Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder priority problems projects Prosthetic PTSD reimbursement savings Secretary DERWINSKI service to veterans service-connected disabilities shortfalls Social Security staff staffing targets Thank timeliness treatment VA hospitals VA's VAMC veteran population Veterans Affairs Veterans Benefits Veterans Benefits Administration Veterans Services VHS&RA vocational rehabilitation VSOS workload
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Page 546 - AADS represents all of the dental schools in the United States, as well as advanced education, hospital, and allied dental education institutions.
Page 61 - For generations, America has led the struggle to preserve and extend the blessings of liberty. And today, in a rapidly changing world, American leadership is indispensable. Americans know that leadership brings burdens and sacrifices. But we also know why the hopes of humanity turn to us. We are Americans; we have a unique responsibility to do the hard work of freedom.
Page 387 - The person has experienced an event that is outside the range of usual human experience and that would be markedly distressing to almost anyone...
Page 425 - Administration for the conduct of their services. b. Will bring to the attention of their superior, for his action, such cases as they are unable to deal with personally of dereliction of duty or incompetence on the part of any full-time or part-time staffs under their control. c. Will, together with the part-time attending staff, under the direction of the Manager, supervise the education and training program. d. When full-time employees of the Veterans...
Page 424 - Administration is charged with certain legal responsibilities in connection with the medical care of veterans which it cannot delegate, if it would. Yet the discharge of these responsibilities need not interfere with the exercise by the schools of their prerogatives in the field of education. All medical authorities of the Veterans' Administration will cooperate fully at all times with the representatives of associated schools and other centers.
Page 428 - National Service life Insurance; Trust fund started in 1940 as the financing mechanism for World War II insurance. Closed to new issues in 1951. Income is derived from premiums, interest on investments and transfers from Veterans Insurance and Indemnities appropriation.
Page 424 - There can be no doubt of the good faith of both parties. The schools of medicine and other teaching centers are cooperating with the three-fold purpose of giving the veteran the highest quality of medical care, of affording the medical veteran the opportunity for postgraduate study which he was compelled to forego in serving his country, and of raising !;enerally the standard of medical practice in the United States by the expression of facilities or graduate education.
Page 541 - I would like to commend you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the Subcommittee for holding a hearing on such an important topic.
Page 427 - The principal objective of the Loan Guaranty Program is to encourage and facilitate extension of favorable credit terms by private lenders to veterans for the purchase, construction or improvement of homes to be occupied by the veterans and their families.
Page 428 - Provides payments for education and training, for eligible veterans and dependents, as well as special assistance to disabled veterans. VETERANS...