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.
What is your VA Priority rating?