The VA: Where Veterans go for a 2nd chance to die for our country
This Northeast FL/Southeast GA VA program is absolutely crap. It's crap, I tell ya.
Since I've been here in 2012, I haven't seen the same doctor more than twice except for the Chinese guy who lied on my medical records (blatant lies that I was able to prove and get assigned to another doc closer to home). I go to refill my meds, but my doctor needs to approve them. No biggie. But wait, my doc transferred to St. Augustine and again I haven't been assigned to another team. This is the 4th or 5th time I have been lost in the system since I have been here. Letters to Senators and Reps don't do shit, either. It's the same old-same old. the only thing that has been hassle free here has been Vision and Dental because they are backed up for 6 months or more which gives me the option to use community Care and see non-VA doctors. It's frustrating as hell. :mad: /rant /bitching&complaining (for now) |
Shitty way to support those that served.
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I don't get any VA benefits because I didn't serve enough active-duty days in my 8 years of being a Reservist. BUT, I'd happily put up with that bullshit to not be paying $450/mo for Obamacare. |
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So what you are saying is recently released multiple murdererous felons from venezuela that enter our country illegally through the southern border are getting better healthcare coverage than you??
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We also had a guy working for us that got throat cancer that the VA here treated, because when he was serving in Vietnam, they handed out cigarettes to the troops. I thought he got good care at our VA in Houston. Every time we went to visit, the nurses and occasional doc that came in were very attentive, and this guy was....let's just say he was known for being gruff and hard to get along with. He called us once and said, hire me another guy, I fired so and so today. Oh, why? They went to eat lunch, kid threw his pack of cigs on the table, and out pops a joint. Our crusty foreman fired him on the spot AND made him find his own way home. They weren't even in the same city where the kid lived. Dude was hard core. And the VA folks treated him very nicely from what I saw, and what he and his wife said. |
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I also do not have any significant disability that I didn't already have when I got in (low back pain that got waiver'd at the MEPS) |
It's not just the Northern FL VA facilities, it's the entire VA healthcare system. I'm eligible for VA healthcare, but I'd go to a back alley unlicensed "Doctor" before I set foot in a VA medical facility again. NFW I'll ever use the VA healthcare system again.
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Don't even get me started on the VA. Carl Vinson medical center in Dublin Ga is shit. We would have to have a side bar on what I think about them.
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I'm a Vet but don't use the system.[Don't have any service connected disabilities]
It makes me sick to my stomach that you guys go though hell trying to get decent health care through the VA!! I use MC with a supplemental plan through USAA that is fantastic! |
Wow....sorry some of you guys are having so much grief at the VA. Mine must be the exception to the rule then. The Biloxi VA is the best medical Ive ever had, and I always had great medical coverage before using the VA.
Ive been with the VA for about 10 years now. Ive had the same Dr's and same team since I started. The VA just did my open heart surgery/bypass. They even accommodated me when I asked to transfer to Nashville for the surgery to be near family. The Dr that did the surgery also does heart transplants so Id say he was pretty well qualified. Im at 70% but going next month for a review due to my surgery. Hoping to get up to 100%. |
They have trillions to send to other countries in "foreign aid" and billions to spend housing and feeding ILLEGAL immigrants but are unwilling to take care of our veterans :spdchk:
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My Dad raved about the VA in Ft. Myers.
My uncle had the opposite experience at the Charlestown Naval Hospital, back in the 60s. He shattered his leg in an auto accident, so the put a few pounds of metal in his leg. It got infected and his recovery extended to well over a year. During that time they hooked him on morphine. |
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It may be confusing to a civilian, but 100% disabled does NOT mean a person is in a wheel chair.....it is just a rating system the VA uses to determine how much they ****ed you up while in the military. (think agent orange):yesnod: |
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