[fortheDeclaration]

Every positive thing Trump does, the Fake News tries to make into a negative.

[bigbob]

Good. They SHOULD call - he WILL fix. Actually they should never have to call for help, but until we get the VA on the right track this is a good expedient.

Trump cares. Obama sure as hell never did.

[truthkeeper]

Did they have the same complaints about Obama's hotline?

Oh that's right...he didn't have one.

[be-baw]

My brother died last October in a VA hospital in Atlanta, one of the better VA hospitals. He died because the surgeon screwed up..

Got no gripes with Trump, regarding VA. It just didn’t happen soon enough for my brother. Glad they finally got a new head administrator. There’s a lot that needs to improve there. It will take a while...just hope for progress.

[blueunicorn6]

I finally realized that it wasn’t a mistake.

Government employees were stealing from me.

It was organized.

They covered for each other.

And if they were stealing from me, then how many other Veterans were they stealing from?

[GOPJ]

VA doctors should get a small base salary then be paid like doctors in the real world... BY THE SERVICE GIVEN. I have a friend - a retired doctor and he says too many VA doctors feel they’ve ‘done their time’ in private practice and now they’re ‘taking it easy’.

The VA won’t get better until financial incentive patterns for doctors are changed.

[hinckley buzzard]

Reforming the VA is no overnight task. He is on the vets’ side; an honest media need to pressure the resistance in the bureaucracy, not the President.

[blueunicorn6]

The one thing that really epitomizes the VA’s behavior towards Veterans is The Magic Disability Percentages Chart.

After the medical personnel list your disabilities, a clerk than assigns percentages of disability to each problem.

They use The Magic Disability Book To determine the percentage of disability.

That’s a story for another time.

The percentage can be anywhere from 0% to 100%.

Then those percentages are run through The Magic Disability Percentages Chart.

The chart does not allow any percentage to increase.

All percentages, after the first, are reduced.

Why?

They have no answer.

There is no logical explanation for the reductions.

A medical issue diagnosed by a Doctor and listed as 60% disability, “magically” becomes 10%.

It is illegal and immoral and a slap to the face of every Veteran.

But the VA clerks use that chart every day to reduce the benefits due the Veterans, and nothing is done.

I stand waiting for anyone from the VA to explain why they use this Magic Chart.

[AlaskaErik]

I’m a veteran, but if I was desperate for help, the VA is the last place I’d ask for it.

[JoeFromSidney]

Thank God I've ever needed the VA medical care, and I hope I never do.