Veterans
As a Navy veteran, Maurice understands the sacrifices made by the men and women of the armed forces and their families. That’s why he voted to increase the pay for members of the military and approved a 70 percent increase in funding for veterans health care and benefits, expanded health care coverage for children of service members, and provided help to families who take care of wounded veterans when they return from conflict.
Maurice is also the author of the that Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act, which would enable armed service members and their families to hold the military accountable for medical malpractice. Current law prevents any such malpractice lawsuits from being filed against the military regardless of the egregiousness of the situation. The bill, which the House Judiciary Committee approved, is named after the late Sgt. Carmelo Rodriguez of Ellenville, New York, who died of skin cancer in 2007 after a series of extraordinary mistakes made by military medical personnel that included multiple misdiagnoses of his condition as a wart.
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