[jospehm20]

I find it very hard to believe that the VA provides anything that other facilities cannot provide. There are civilian doctors that specialize in all the areas you mentioned who don’t put people on secret waiting lists to do as the VA has been caught doing.

[jospehm20]

Should be “who don’t put people on secret waiting lists to die as the VA has been caught doing”

[airborne]

I’m getting those specialists in one hospital. My medical records are right there so I can see three specialists in one day and then pick up prescriptions at the pharmacy.

And the cost for civilian specialists, not counting the time and travel, is much higher than my VA.

Is it possible you find it hard to believe because you haven’t lived it for 3 decades like I have?

[hinckley buzzard]

Actually The VA has been a world leader in fields of medicine and rehabilitation that uniquely affect veterans, things such as mentioned above. They just about wrote the book on treating spinal cord injury.