This Marine is pissed because VA says he is dead.
http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-va-told-man-he-is-dead-txt,0,7307995.story
http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-va-told-man-he-is-dead-txt,0,7307995.story
When will the VA tell you and family when you are dead ?
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dangerousdon
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I am grateful for all the benefits I receive and am still receiving from the VA, but if you have any issues at all they are the rudest bunch of people and the rudest department that I have ever dealt with. While they didn't pronounce me dead, my benefits a while back were interrupted. When they really wouldn't do much to help I got the local congressman involved. The VA quickly responded that they were right and I was wrong, but for some reason (I can't imagine what--said with sarcasm) my benefits were restored about the same time I got my answer. Funny isn't it.
TomTerrific
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A while back a good friend and coworker died. He also used the VA.
The next time I was at the clinic, I took his obituary thinking the VA would appreciate knowing it and could do whatever it is they do when a patient dies. The clerk thanked me for being thoughtful but said they can't do anything until the family notifies them of the death.
I wonder why service alumni are surprised the way the VA works. Just like the Army. If you don't like it, fill out a TS slip and give it to the chaplain.
They had one major screw-up with me and made it right before Richard Baker contacted them.
I'm having some serious issues and was just told that soonest I can see my Doctor is February 14th! They said I could go to Urgent Care if I needed to before I saw him BUT, because I am a Pain Management patient, they just send me back to PM, they send me to my Doc! AAAARRRRRRRGGHGGGGGHHHHHH!
yeah, the wait to see a doctor(as in a scheduled appointment) is crazy long. its an average of about a month and a half, depending on which doc or specialist i have to see. i was kind of worried, but i had someone give me some advice...in the instance that you need to go to an emergency room or immediate care, are far away from a VA facility, and are worried about whether the VA will cover said emergency. basically you call into the southeast VA..whatever line....press whatever number to speak to a nurse, tell her the situation, and she'll give you the yay or nay...but as long as you call in the VA should cover wherever you go to seek emergency medical service.
I'm always disgusted at the atrocious way we treat our veterans. Regardless of the way we feel about the conflicts in which they may or may not have fought, we made a deal with them. They wrote the check. We cashed it. But we don't give them what they deserve. How shameful. If there's anyone in this country who deserves to be treated like we owe them our lives it's our veterans. Shorting the VA is the mark of a failed society, and we've done it at least since 1985. I suspect it goes beyond that.
Back in 1985 I worked for a nurse staffing company who supplied contract nurses to hospitals on a per diem basis. No one wanted to work for the VA, because they paid so poorly. The result was the VA got the nurses no one else would hire. There were a few exceptions - nurses who would work for no one else but the VA. They took the short pay, and they always got glowing reports. These women were heroes to me - and I don't have a lot of heroes.
Back in 1985 I worked for a nurse staffing company who supplied contract nurses to hospitals on a per diem basis. No one wanted to work for the VA, because they paid so poorly. The result was the VA got the nurses no one else would hire. There were a few exceptions - nurses who would work for no one else but the VA. They took the short pay, and they always got glowing reports. These women were heroes to me - and I don't have a lot of heroes.
TomTerrific
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Most of the nurses I've had contact with in the VA have been top notch. Can't say that for the rest of their staff. Nurses are the ones that get things done there, so I cultivate them and don't have many problems.
You have to know how the VA operates and operate within their stupid, childish rules. I'm on Medicare now so I get civilian health care, but I maintain my relations with the VA. They do a good job with diabetics.
Hardballing
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And yet this, the VA, was held up as THE model for how Obamacare would function. Particularly by that airhead Biden.
Doesn't sound all rosy and picturesque to me.
Doesn't sound all rosy and picturesque to me.
As someone who depends on the VA for all his medical care, I say without reservation, RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! Don't get me wrong, I am VERY gratefull to have them there for me but there are huge issues that you don't have when you and your insurance company are footing the bill.
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