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RELEASE: MARCH 31,
2004
BILL FOR CHIROPRACTIC IN THE VA
Representative Bob
Filner (D-CA) has introduced legislation that would mandate direct access to
chiropractic services for eligible veterans in the US Department of Veterans
Affairs health programs. HR 4501
was introduced on March 29, 2004, partly in response to the storm of concern
over the recent recommendations of the Chiropractic Veterans Advisory Committee
and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi's official response to those
recommendations, which eliminated all possibilities for direct access to
chiropractic services for veterans.
HR 4501, entitled the "Better Access to
Chiropractors To Keep
Our Veterans Healthy Act", also expands the role of chiropractic care
into the rehabilitative and prevention dimensions of the DVA program. The bill has been referred to the House
Committee on Veterans Affairs, on which Rep. Filner serves. ICA urges all in chiropractic to
contact their U.S. Congressional Representatives and urge them to co-sponsor
this important bill.
"ICA enthusiastically supports this initiative," said
ICA Legislative Committee Chairman Dr. Michael S. McLean. "There is no question that veterans
should have the minimum amount of bureaucracy standing between them and the care
they want, and that the current status of the chiropractic program within the
VA, requiring primary care referral is unacceptable to the ICA, to the
profession at large, and to the veteran beneficiary."
Dr. McLean serves on the Department of Veterans
Affairs Chiropractic Advisory Committee and has been involved in every aspect of
the development of the legislation that established the chiropractic program, as
well as the efforts of the Advisory Committee created by Congress to advise the
Secretary on the details of the chiropractic program.
Representative Filner has served in the US House of
Representatives since 1992 and represents California's 51st
Congressional District. He has been an emphatic and consistent supporter of
chiropractic issues during his Congressional tenure and can certainly be
characterized as one of chiropractic's best friends in
Congress.
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