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Cagey, thank you for this thread. It makes me sick and outrages me,I wish I could say I am shocked but I am not shocked one little bit. VA hospitals, their pharmacy's making horrible mistakes giving vets the wrong medicine and KILLING them, keeping vets waiting 4 to 5 hours for appt.s they made and waited for months to get, Doctors not showing up for appointments, not even doing complete exams.........I could make this post two pages long of complaints!!!!!!

Our veterans should be given FREE medical care and not only that but the best. Now they are even having to pay co pay and the horrific treatment is not getting any better it is a nightmare.

Yes, there are the few and far , VERY far between places that a not so bad. But across America MOST of the VA hospitals are horrible.

God forgive our Nation for how it had treated our Veterans, POW and MIA's. America has a lot to answser for and it is not just the lying politicians, it is the citizen as well. The I do not want to think about it civilian. I have my TV,my tummy is full and I don't want to be reminded civilian.

Sorry about the rant .

"Sorry about the rant"

YOU may rant all you want.
You earned that right long ago when you went with Bob Hope 3 different times to Viet Nam to entertain with the USO.
You are an Honorary Vet and The Guardian Angel of ALL Vets, especially the Viet Nam era ones.
You know 1st hand from your years of visits to Vets in VA hospitals.
So rant all you want and we will listen.

Ditto on what Tonk said SB and more... you, Lady, continue to take care of us old boneheads with the USO Canteen FReeper Style...I know I am eternally grateful to you DEAR FRIEND for that.

The treatment described in this post is disgusting, those mudering bastards at Gitmo are getting better treatment than the hero's that have kept us free, SHAME.....

I say feed those at Gitmo rat poison and use the saved money to take better care of our hero's.

Wait a minute, rat poison can be expensive... an M16 shell only costs under a quarter....

"But across America MOST of the VA hospitals are horrible."

I've been in several in Texas, Snow Bunny, and I agree with you!
This is a disgrace...nay, this is a CRIME against our vets!

"I went into the veterans hospital recently with a friend. It smelled of piss."

Everyone I've been in smelled that way!
It bothers us for a short while; imagine having to lay there and smell that day after day, month after month.

An excellent rant. Can you imagine if this very same story had occurred in a "Big Name" hospital? Surely the networks, cable news and newspapers would have covered it, but it's only a VA hospital and no one really cares. Only a small blurb from Reuters and a rant from the choir.

When the people we pay to govern start ranting things will change, but that seems to be a pipe dream.