Comments on: Lawyers Say Vets Dying Waiting for VA Care

Federal Lawsuit Against Department Of Veterans Affairs Comes To A Close

[Marie Zarankevich]

These Vets may not GET any help unless some private resources offer to donate treatment blocks for free to local Vets needing treatment they cannot get from the VA. -- The individuals needing treatment really need help, right away, not when we get this all sorted out. -- Like so many other things, I think we are on our own with this one, and may have to provide for our soldiers ourselves! -- Imagine THAT!

[mcapek]

It is not the VA health care system that is at fault. It is the politicians starting with President Bush and the politically appointed managers of the Department of Veterans Affairs who have fallen down on the job.
...........WRONG my friend, VA SYSTEM has been ALWAYS screwed up, even in the 70s when I actually rotated through there for a few months. And it has nothing to do with president Bush, it has always been screwed up, because of insufficient funding (and of course, since the VA care is "free", there are "unlimited demands" for healthcare by veterans).

[adek1]

I used to work in a mental health agency in mckeeport PA. They used to tell me to turn away any Vet if they had VA insurance!!! Some of them could not get to the nearest nearby facility which was about 15 miles away!! I accepted them anyway, I thought that policy really stunk!! I didn''t even care if I got fired because these men and women really needed mental health treatment. The policies in this country really are horrible when it comes to our recovering veterans!!! I hope they win win win!!! And the VA and the government PAYS!!!

[lindaredtail]

johnpatrick9 I too voted twice against this administration. And in 2006 voted to begin to correct it. I say we because it was my country that sent them to war though personally I did not agree with it. Hopefully we are on a trend now where we can correct some of these things.

[Marie Zarankevich]

Looks like Bush and his buddies are planning to clean our clock completely before he is done in office. -- What is hardest to believe is that our Congress is allowing all this to happen, Republican OR Democrat they are supposed to protect us from predators. -- Instead we are being fed to them, in pieces. -- These people are ravishing this country, after which there will be nothing left but empty gum wrappers on the ground. -- They will not stop, and will take all they can get away with, watch!. -- OUR biggest terrorist problem is BUSH.

[michael0004]

Welcome to the new UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN for America. Get used to the VA fiasco, except thousand times magnified.


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Posted by mcapek at 01:53 PM : May 02, 2008

It is not the VA health care system that is at fault. It is the politicians starting with President Bush and the politically appointed managers of the Department of Veterans Affairs who have fallen down on the job. But nice try at scoring a "two-for"

[vet999999]

"Lawyers Say Vets Dying Waiting for VA Care"

And I am supposed to believe a lawyer, right.

[mcapek]

"Then once we get to the VA hospital, the doctors that we see are nearly all foreigners, who have no concept of what a veteran is actually going through."
...but who else but foreign doctors would work in a government system that is NOT salary competitive??
VA System and Indian Reservation Clinics are the pits. no money, hassles, bureacracy, so talented doctors would be crazy to put up with that..

"Then when we do see a doctor, the odds of them actually treating what ills us, is slim to none. They will make excuses, act like we are crazy,"
...have you considered the possibility that they are right? and can you give some examples of "excuses" are you talking about? you want them to operate on your or something?

[johnpatrick9]

Please do not say that "We" sent them to war as some 50,000,000 Americans voted twice against this evil administration and rotten war. Nonetheless, they are our Brothers and now sadly our Sisters , our fellow Citizens and are to be tended and cared for. God Bless our Troops and God *** all those who had a part in sending them into a preemptive war built on a lie and managed by nitwits.

[mcapek]

Welcome to the new UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN for America. Get used to the VA fiasco, except thousand times magnified.