Restrictions on Outpatient Dental Service: Hearings...Eighty- Third Congress, Second Session on H.R. 7653, Prescribing Certain Limitations with Respect to Outpatient Dental Care for Veterans, June 10 and 24, 1954

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Page 5225 - The purpose of rehabilitation is to restore employability lost by virtue of a handicap due to service-incurred disability. The Administrator shall have the power and duty to cooperate with and employ the facilities of other governmental and State employment agencies for the purpose of placing in gainful employment persons trained under the provisions of this part.
Page 5237 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 5224 - Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for outpatient dental services and treatment, or related dental appliances with respect to a service-connected dental disability which is not compensable in degree unless such condition or disability is shown to have been in existence at time of discharge and application for treatment is made within one year after enactment of this Act...
Page 5225 - That veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, who are in need of outpatient treatment, shall, upon application for such out-patient treatment by the Veterans...
Page 5223 - Dental services and related appliances for a dental condition or disability described in clause (2) of subsection (b) of this section shall be furnished on a one-time completion basis, unless the services rendered on a one-time completion basis are found unacceptable within the limitations of good professional standards, in which event such additional services may be afforded as are required to complete professionally acceptable treatment.
Page 5225 - ... (3) which is a service-connected dental condition or disability due to combat wounds or other service trauma, or of a former prisoner of war ; (4) which is associated with and is aggravating a disability resulting from some other disease or injury which was incurred in or aggravated by active military, naval, or air service...
Page 5263 - The committee will stand adjourned until further call of the Chair. [Whereupon, at 12:10 pm, the hearing was adjourned...
Page 5225 - There is also a small number of veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion, who are being paid pensions for non-service-connected disability under the provisions of part III of Veterans Regulation No.
Page 5237 - Veterans who are disabled by injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by active service in line of duty during wartime or peacetime service and discharged or separated under other than dishonorable conditions.
Page 5249 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, the American Legion is grateful for the opportunity to be heard on this bill. I have with me Dr.

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