That is a tremendous pair of ideas! I have not understood why vets should be limited to such a limited range of locations for medical care, why not enable them to go to any qualified medical facility??
And if all hospitals and clinics are available to our vets, then why not make better use of the existing VA infrastructure to take care of the worst off veterans who are homeless??
Have you read the Trump veterans benefits plan? It sort of does that. It comes close merging medicare/medicade/social security and the veterans healthsystem. It makes the plans portable and provides for vets to see any doctor.
That is a tremendous pair of ideas! I have not understood why vets should be limited to such a limited range of locations for medical care, why not enable them to go to any qualified medical facility??
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If not mistaken, one of Ronald Reagan’s goals was to open under utilized VA Hospitals in rural areas where hospitals were few and far between, to ALL on a space available basis and allowing VETS that were not close to VA facilities to use local Hospitals.
I think WE (us Vets) shut that down or at least objected.
I sort of figured no one really sat down and thought the prospect out.
There are two issues involved, is the Veteran a 1-2 hitch person or a career Service, level of service is different.
As is disability from VA Care which has a $38K cap per year income level, even for career Military. BE sure upon discharge you have a complete physical, dental and vision and all medical health issues checked off. Don’t neglect your visit to a Othomologist or dentis. A Optometrist is not a specialist and his records won’t help if you develop eye issues from chems or dangerous cleaning or lead paint contact.