The Washington Post (3/5, Horton) says that for decades the Department of Veterans Affairs has “unlawfully turned away thousands of veterans with other-than-honorable discharges, rendering some of the most vulnerable veterans invisible and desperate for help, according to a” report (PDF) from the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School. The article says that “systemic misunderstanding of the law within VA about which veterans it should care for – and which should be denied services – has triggered improper mass denial of care since 1980, the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School said in the study, leaving an estimated 400,000 more at risk of never gaining access to health care they may have earned.”
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— “Requires subscription, The Washington Post, March 5, 2020