Hearing exposes flaws in Agent Orange law

A recent Congressional hearing brings hope to hundreds of thousands of Vietnam veterans in line to be compensated for three additional diseases linked to Agent Orange exposure. The hearing also revealed that up to $4 billion a year more in compensation will be paid in part because VA and Congress have mishandled this volatile issue. Witnesses testified that the government cut short or never sponsored a host of potential Agent Orange studies that might have better informed on levels of exposure, or the relative incidence of herbicide-linked conditions among Vietnam veterans versus other populations. Stars and Stripes reports.