Rep. Loebsack Votes to Support Our Troops and Veterans, Better Equip Our National Guard and Increase Pain Care
As Passed, the National Defense Authorization Act Includes Rep. Loebsack’s Military Pain Care Act
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Washington, DC, May 22 -- Updated May 27, 2008 -- While MAGNUM has been working hard on the members of the United States Congress and two Administrations to recognize Migraine as the serious neurological disease it is, and recently to have the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fairly fund moderate research, which would ease a great deal of suffering in the country.
These efforts readers by now know are called "Headache On the Hill" (HOH) and the success of this past fall is only the beginning of a very positive health-care initiative. MAGNUM along with the Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy (AHDA) used a similar tactic to get Congress to (In our case) provide by supporting increased NIH funding of Migraine disease & headache disorder research in the FY09 appropriations bill. MAGNUM was seeking support for appending the (above) report language to the appropriations bill, while we are still advancing that agenda we are happy to report that the American Pain Foundation was successfully working with with Congressman Dave Loebsack (D-IA) to include language from Congressman's Military Pain Care Act, H.R. 5465.
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