Posted on 05/31/2014 10:29:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
V A ping.
VA To Improve Veterans’ Health Care With New $500 Million Waiting Room
http://www.theonion.com/articles/va-to-improve-veterans-health-care-with-new-500-mi,36130/
I get excellent care at the VA. The politicians only seem interested in using this to continue the endless blame game.
Someone needs to step up and make sure the Vets who are not receiving the care/or are on waiting lists have access to what I get.
I have little or no hope that will occur....the idiots in Washington will make it an election year talking point..and forget it until its politically advantageous for on or the other side to make it an issue.
I don’t know why this isn’t conspiracy to defraud the gov’t. (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
You can’t tell me the various admins of one region didn’t discuss among themselves the ways to achieve their bonuses.
Is your physician an American, because mine isn’t and never has been, since 1983.
Enrollment figures surpassed goals?! According to whom? The same types of bureaucrats that make up fake waiting lists at the VA.
6 mos ago my Dad called daily for 8 weeks to get an appt. With a pcp to get a referral to the eye doctor. (Army, Phillipines, kaboom, blind in one eye).
Had to call his Congresscritter. They called back the next day.
I also get good to excellent care at a VA Health center, so the quality of service varies greatly from center to center. There has been talk of vouchers allowing vets to seek medical care at civilian facilities when it is unavailable at the VA. In 2008 I was trsnferred from a VA hospital to a civilian hospital when I had a gall bladder attack that, for whatever reason (I don’t recall why)could not be handled at the VA facility. I did not have a voucher or did I request the transfer. While being treated by civilian doctors for my gall bladder, tests resulted in a recommendation that I undergo a CABG (coronary artery bypass graft). I was moved to a heart hospital and underwent a CABG. The very large bill (perhaps negotiated downward) was paid by the VA, for which I was grateful. The point of the foregoing is that, if deemed necessary, the VA does send some vets out of the VA health system without vouchers.
Yeah for the most part, I’ve had the primary care provider change fairly regularly, every couple of years or so, and the specialists change more often than that.
From my perspective, the VA mimics the care I got when I was on active. The turnover in personal never bothered me then and doesn’t bother me now.
I use the VA medical centers in Helena and Salt Lake City. Have never experienced calling and not getting an appointment. Sometimes they are weeks out but they have always scheduled something on one call.
Interesting you called the Representative, I’d bet if asked in the last couple of weeks, he/she would have sworn they never heard anything about appointment delays ever...
VA pimg.
Wish they would have listed the hospitals.
Document: VA Audit report
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/05/politics/document-va-audit/?iid=article_sidebar
Oh yes something will happen. The guilty will get promoted. . . .
The Onion is close. The reality is even stupider...
“The VA has spent a total of $489 million to upgrade conference rooms, buy draperies, and purchase new office furniture during the past four-and-a-half years.”
The VA ..........Poster child and advertisment for crap care
one topic that is never mentioned - a comparison of number of patients seen by a doctor each hour. I have some insight that the number may be as little as half of the number in private medicine.
It doesn’t mean that 40% are not manipulating. Just means they were able to catch 60%.
Why do they bonus for doing there jobs? Just like IRS, HHS, Teachers & etc. they want more and more $$$$$$ for nothing look at schools, colleges, IRS, FBI, NSA & etc. all perks they get from working class in USA. Now they R making more than the TAX PAYERS who R paying them. Something about that is not right. And to say nothing about Congress and 98% of elected officials all over USA. Go look at RU cities halls & there waste. And its 1000 time in DC. Only in American do they ask us for $$$$ to get them there job & then miss use R TAX $$$$. Wake up people. God please protect us from R leaders.
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