American Legion Pushes For Coverage of Treatment for Troops With Brain Injuries
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by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR
The American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans’ organization, is calling for the Pentagon’s health plan to cover cognitive rehabilitation therapy for troops with brain injuries, citing an NPR and ProPublica investigation.
Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is designed to retrain the brain to do basic tasks such as memorization and word recall. Tricare, which covers nearly 4 million service membe...
