She means ‘I don’t give a care about the VA nor vets’
Ha. I wouldn't go near the VA if my life depended on it.
“At a town hall event in New York last week, she actually argued that the system provides the “highest quality of care” to veterans”
I am disgusted that I agree with AOC on this.
VA care is the very best health care I have ever received.
And all of my Priority 1 fellow vets would agree. At least all I have encountered.
Most, if not ALL of those who complain are Priority 5 - 8. And they have always been “Space Available”. Just like trying to fly home for the holidays from Guam or Germany on MAC.
I like the VA just as it is.
Hey, she’s got a degree!..........................from a real brick and mortarboard school!..................They must be so proud!................
I just had an incident where I needed a clinic note from the VA stating I was recommended for eye surgery so that I could get ground transportation the day of surgery.
The PA fellow at the VA angered me because he said my eyesight wasn’t so bad that I needed transportation assistance.
I asked him “does it say in my record that I am recommended for surgery?” He responded yes but that my eyesight didn’t justify a clinic note (a task that would take less than 5 minutes).
I called my private provider who took less than 2 minutes to look up my record, another 2 minutes to write a note and email it to me on official letterhead. And the call ended with “Anything else I can help you with today?”
Does anyone see what’s wrong here?
It’s the perfect example of what is wrong with government-run healthcare versus private care.
In the government, anywhere in government, unless you’re a connected democrat and member of the ‘Resistance’, it’s all about ‘accountability’.
Government likes to virtue signal an aura of ‘accountability’ as if’s some sort of halo that allows then to say ‘no’ in fifty thousand different ways.
To survive in government, you need to master the fine art of saying ‘no’ in hundreds of ways. Because if you say ‘yes’, well then you might be read the riot act for assisting scammers or something. Saying ‘yes’ carries implied liability.
Government sucks.
I love my fellow vets. They and I would be much better served if we could sign on to private clinics for care rather than put up with the nonsense at VA medical centers.
The employees at VA health centers are good people, they’ll do just fine in a private clinic setting. It’s just that in a government setting, they suck and they know it.
This reflects on the voters in her district even moreso than her. She won her seat with 16000 votes...total! Most voters simply stayed home. So, when you don’t exercise your right to vote, you get someone who is so stupid you wonder how she can breathe without help.
That’s just the thing with her. She’s runs her mouth about EVERYTHING when she don’t know shit about anything.
OMG SHE THINKS THE VA IS A MONEY MAKING OPERATION
Geebus this girl is stupid.
THE GOVERNMENT runs the VA.
And that’s how bad everyone’s health care will be once the government runs everyone’s health care.
hey AOC- the climate aint broke- stick that in yer pipe and smoke it-
I am retired US Army. I have been to the VA horse-pittle in Birmingham, AL, ONE time, and that was to take the physical for by VA disability. That is the only time I even wanted to go in that dump. I’d rather die in the car on the way to Dr. Pol’s Vet Clinic up in Mee-chee-gin, than use that dump. You wait for hours and hours for an appointment that you had that morning at 9 a.m. and they finally saw me in the middle of the afternoon. I feel for any veteran that has to use that place. I haven’t heard reports of any deaths from there, but I know many a person that has gone there and seen a doctor, and needed follow up care and instead of getting any appointment within the month or so, they waited six, eight, ten or more months for a follow up!!! That is simply outrageous!!! Do they think the condition will some how improve by the time the person gets the appointment??? Reminds me of the murderers out in Arizona at the VA where those people died WAITING for an appointment!!! In this veteran’s humble opinion the Veterans Administration, especially the medical side, is a national disgrace. Even the disability side is a JOKE, yes yelled and in all caps!!! You file for your disability at the time of retirement or when you leave the service after your enlistment is up. I had to wait almost a year to get my appointment for my VA disability. That started my TWENTY-YEAR FIGHT with the VA to get my puny 10% VA disability raised where it should be for someone filing for a damaged spine, gun-shot wound in Vietnam, two bad knees, both shoulders with rotator tears, which resulted in my having to have two back (with the 2d one a spinal fusion), three right knee (with the last one a knee replacement), both shoulders cut on, and other assorted surgeries, which resulted in me having 10 surgeries from 2008 thru 2019. That goes with the three I had while in the Army for a grand total of 13. Thankfully these 10 were in civilian doctors and hospitals and not with the stinking VA. I’d take my chances with a guy and a coat hanger in a back alley before I’d let VA touch me.
All I know is that the VA Center in Salt Lake has done a great job for me. Better than my private insurance did.
Its long past broken. AOC’s brain is the only thing in America more defective than the VA.
The VA didn't pay the bill for the stitches, and mailed a questionaire 6 months later about why I went to the ER in the first place. Doc and hospital sent me straight to collections, without even billing me, claiming VA wouldn't pay, I paid and that was that...(Except for lasting damage to my credit report)
9 YEARS LATER, last fall, the VA sends me a "decision" that exactly as I had though at the time, the ER visit was covered. 9 FREAKING YEARS! I'm glad it was just a dozen stitches!
Didn't anyone tell this buffoon that government agencies don't operate on a profit margin? That's what the private sector does.
Double or triple face-palm time.
Anything with Alexandria Ocasio-Kotex’s name should have a barf or puke alert.
Same goes for her antimsemitic sisters Omar and Tlaib.
Is she following a blueprint of everyone she absolutely MUST alienate?
I mean-pissing off that WHOLE strata of voters we call US veterans? Really? That’s a lot of votes to throw away!!
