(WTRF) – It’s been nearly two weeks since the House voted to provide additional funding and reverse recent changes to the United States Post Office, but the Senate still has yet to take up the issue. 

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said not fixing the problems is detrimental to the state’s veteran population. 

Ohioans rely on mail or prescriptions more per capita than any other state in the country, imagine that. The VA fills about 80% of its prescriptions through a mail-order program delivering 120 million prescriptions per year. That’s one reason they’re so used so often used in Ohio.

SENATOR SHERROD BROWN, (D) OHIO

He was joined on a call this afternoon by disabled Ohio veteran Meredith Barnett. She said she received prescription deliveries from the VA without issue for 15 years, until last month. 

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