Veteran Tells of Long VA Waits, Substandard Care

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Veteran-Tells-of-Long-VA-Waits-Substandard-Care-260546101.html#ixzz32fwGoEIr ^ | Saturday, May 24, 2014 | Omari Fleming and Andie Adams

[oh8eleven]

Combat Medic?
If so, he'd have been a Navy Corpsman and would/should have stated so in this story. But I sincerely doubt it.

[conservative cat]

Yes,even with “Cadillac” insurance, I can’t get dermatology appointments in less than 4/6 weeks,if I am lucky. It took me over 4 weeks to get a GI appt when I was dealing with the after effects of a superbug that almost killed me. Specialists are hard to come by in civilian life, too. Obamacare is making it worse.

[stevie_d_64]

BTW, did anyone catch the information about how Congress had passed legislation/regulation/authorization for the VA to allow Veterans, “during a time of backlog” to allow Veterans to seek healthcare treatments at private hospitals and doctors not in the VA network???

And that the VA to this day has not notified Veterans during this time of this provision???

Now, Shinseki needs to go, that provision should have been the first thing out of his trap the other day...

It should have been the first thing out of the yap of Obama even after his obfuscation till he mentioned it the other day in his presser...

Just my opinion...