I wonder how long those fake pig farmers had to wait for their checks from the government?
Of course, the answer is no. But the next question should be:
Is this regime taking care of the active duty personnel? And, the answer to that would be no! Decimating the military more than Clinton!...and, that's saying a lot!
The only thing that would make it worse in the VA is if Il Douche’ named Jane Fonda to head it.
Nothing really drastic, but when we got married (DH is a disabled vet), we had to send proof with a claim to the VA. It took almost a year to get it finished. We had to resubmit paperwork a few times. Very inefficient. Would have taken longer if I had not been such a pest. Fortunately, it was retroactive and we were not in dire need, but for those that are.....
I work with homeless people as part of the Matthew 25:35 ministry in Columbia, SC.
We have a homeless Korean War veteran who needs his disability claim approved so he can afford to get off the street. He is also in need of surgery but the VA is denying him even that. He is about 80.
I wonder how long you have to wait to get food stamps? Is it a two year wait? How about Social Security Disability? How about unemployment? They get that vote-buying money out pretty darn fast.
Nope. I have had a claim in for 15 months. It’s atrocious.
When I filed my retirement paperwork and had service-connected injuries, I sewnt the paperwork to the VA.
And waited. . . .
Called after nearly a 2-yr wait and was told (after nearly an hour on hold) that if they pulled my paperwork from “the pile” they would look at it and then place it on the bottom of the stack, treating it like it arrives that day. . placing it behind all the other paperwork arriving AFTER my paperwork arrived originally.
Obviously, the incentive is to NOT have them look into the cause of a delay, as that action would double (at least) the delay you already experienced.
After 2.5 year wait, I contacted my congressman and he contacted the VA and they, the VA, sent their determination to my congressman, NOT ME. And in this determination was my complete medical file and the an assessment of my injuries. . .a total violation of HIPA.
The VA is staffed with the most incompetent, arrogant, ignorant, stupid, illiterate, brain-dead, petty, vindictive bureaucratic tyrants you ever met. . .(does one have to mention the demographic make-up of the VA “work” force?)
The Democrats think that military people vote Republican, so they punish them. That is how children behave.
No, WE ARE NOT!! I have been waiting TWO YEARS on my VA disability reopening and getting an appointment to see a VA doctor, who will do as he did last time, come in, bend my knee, squeeze my arm, and render a report on an exam that LASTED LESS THAN FOUR MINUTES and VA denied everything. I spent FIVE YEARS in the appeals and finally got some disability. I was denied for my back saying nothing was wrong with it. I have appealed that again now after TWO BACK SURGERIES that put two titanium posts in my back to stabilize the discs. So, I continue to wait. Plus, our out of pocket costs under Obama are doubled each year and cuts made. But, that’s okay. He will give illegals and muzzies free stuff. Stinking pig is what he and his DOD mob are. That includes the butt kissing brass in the Pentagon who kiss for promotions.
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I’m less sure about other specialties, but in mine, psychiatry, the VA system does not really aim at curing illness so much a providing the “therapeutic” structure of institutionalization.
It is a bureaucracy, and the purpose of a bureaucracy is never its stated goal, but its own perpetuation, expansion and acquisition of resources and power.
If people want to get well they have to go to someone who wants that as well, and who has therefore been motivated enough to learn how to do it - i.e. the private sector (which is now scheduled for termination).