[pepsionice]

This issue has been around for fifty-odd years. The VA is simply a welfare bucket to hand out jobs to losers who can’t get a job elsewhere. It’d be just as well to agree on some GS-related health package for all former military folks, and just downsize the VA to forty people out of some no-description building in Omaha.

[ComputerGuy]

The VA is simply a welfare bucket to hand out jobs to losers who can’t get a job elsewhere.

I agree. The situation with the VA is hopeless. Hopeless because they are overloaded and hopeless because they are totally incompetent. When I was diagnosed with cancer last October, I didn't bother going to them for treatment. I went to UNC Chapel Hill, got into a clinical trial, and was cured in less than two months.

[mazda77]

You are correct. As long as I was a military dependent, DOB to 17 and into my enlistment, I knew the VA was trouble. My dad refused to go there even when he was diagnosed with cancer related to Agent Orange exposure while at Cam Ranh Bay.

Never went there, never will even now as I am without health insurance. I can figure it out myself.

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