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In reply to the discussion: Low-dose study finds no effects [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)58. Becasue Congress has ruled you are in 100% perfect health upon enlistment
Thus, by law, there can be NO preexisting conditions once you pass your physical unless it is noted in the physical. Now, if afterward the VA detects what it claims is a per-existing condition, the burden in on the VA to show it was NOT on the veteran to show it was NOT. This is mandated by Congressional passed law, was was the MS situation. Congress, by making the mentioned LAW as to MS, wanted to make it clear that Veterans can get benefits for something like MS that COULD have been caused by Military service. Congress wants the VA to show someone developed MS within seven years of Military service from some other cause, NOT the Veteran having the burden to show he or she developed MS due to Military duty.
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