From NABlindVets at aol.com Sat Jun 1 16:08:36 2013 From: NABlindVets at aol.com (NABlindVets at aol.com) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 12:08:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Blindvet-talk] National Meeting July 2 at the Rosen Center Hotel Message-ID: <5df90.5efa06e.3edb7684@aol.com> ATTENTION ALL VETERANS! The next meeting of the National Association of Blind Veterans will be held at the Rosen Center Hotel on July 2, 2013 at 1900 Hrs to 2200 Hrs. The room will be announced in the NFB Convention Agenda available at _www.NFB.org_ (http://www.NFB.org) and at _www.nabv.org_ (http://www.nabv.org) . On Thursday July 4th the National Association of blind Veterans will open the National Convention with it's annual Veterans Celebration. Please Join us on July 4th at 9AM in the main ball room of the Rosen Center Hotel at 9840 I Drive in Orlando. May God Bless Our Troops! Dwight From NABlindVets at aol.com Sun Jun 2 16:08:20 2013 From: NABlindVets at aol.com (NABlindVets at aol.com) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 12:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Blindvet-talk] Fwd: National Association of Blind Veterans Convention Activities 2013 Message-ID: National Association of Blind Veterans Convention Activities 2013 ! Exhibit Hall : NABV Table is open during all exhibit hall hours. We will be selling 50/50 Raffle Tickets, Gorgeous One Nation Under God lapel pins, and NABV License Plates 7:00 - 10:00 pm?NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLIND VETERANS Salon 17, level 2 How can we better serve our veterans, show our appreciation, and bring them into the Federation? Find out how to become involved with veterans? issues, such as legislative initiatives that impact 100 percent of service connected disabled veterans. Elections. Blind veterans and interested friends are welcome. Dwight Sayer, President Thursday July 4th, 2013 9:55 am CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM: VETERANS RECOGNIZED Dwight Sayer, President, National Association of Blind Veterans, National Federation of the Blind; Winter Garden, Florida Dwight D. Sayer Consultant PO Box 784957 Winter Garden, Fl. 34778 Office-Mobile-(321) 948-1466 Email-mister.consultant50 at gmail.com Web Site-www.disability-consultant.com From NABlindVets at aol.com Wed Jun 12 21:08:53 2013 From: NABlindVets at aol.com (NABlindVets at aol.com) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:08:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Blindvet-talk] Without VA Lease Authority, Veterans To Be Denied Care Message-ID: >From Dwight D. sayer NABV National President, From: Larry A. Polzin, DAV National Commander [mailto:lbogle at davmail.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:42 PM To: Dwight Sayer Subject: Without VA Lease Authority, Veterans To Be Denied Care Without VA Lease Authority, Veterans To Be Denied Care (http://capwiz.com/dav/utr/1/ECLLTDGUBU/KFUBTDGUCN/9657656376) _Take Action!_ (http://capwiz.com/dav/utr/1/ECLLTDGUBU/KFUBTDGUCN/9657656376) Please Contact Your Elected Officials Today! The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plans to open 38 new community outpatient clinics, in 22 states and territories, between now and 2017. These clinics will be in leased buildings, with VA employees providing the services. This same arrangement has worked well in hundreds of existing VA clinics, nationwide. Last year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an independent arm of Congress, decided these lease contracts would become long-term debts of the federal government. In considering the first 15 leases, Congress, based on the new CBO interpretation, forced VA to find funds for all 15 leases to cover an entire 20-year leasing period, rather than provide the money for only the first year. The authorizing law only requires the first year to be funded, with future payments to be managed through the annual VA budget. Because VA could not pay the entire cost (between $1.2 and $1.5 billion) in the first year for 15 clinics, this new interpretation effectively stopped all VA proposed leases. This program, both new clinic leases and renewals for existing leases, is now in jeopardy. Without these clinics, VA will be denying care to veterans in need, while making their health care more expensive overall. The cost to the government is far less than construction of major VA hospitals. Without the ability to lease, from a practical point of view the change in Congressional policy forces VA to buy land and build government-owned clinics, or to do nothing. At a minimum this new requirement will add years to the existing planning process, will delay or deny care for veterans, and is unacceptable to veterans who need VA health care. VA is managing almost 900 existing community-based outpatient clinics, all established under the prior policy, and operating under leases. Veterans who receive this care are highly satisfied. In our opinion this successful arrangement should not be abandoned at the expense of 340,000 or more veterans who would be denied care. Please use the prepared letter, or write your own letter, to urge your two Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to solve this problem, to ensure veterans receive the care they earned and deserve. Recently, the Executive Directors of the major veterans service organizations sent a letter to Congressional leaders expressing our concerns. As always, thank you for your grassroots advocacy on behalf of injured, wounded and ill veterans, and for your support of DAV and our mission of service to veterans. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us, please click _here_ (http://capwiz.com/dav/lmx/u/?jobid=227236094&queueid=9657656376) . No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - _www.avg.com_ (http://www.avg.com/) Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6404 - Release Date: 06/12/13