Why the VA sucks.

[dave]

Well I would sure like to know how a friend got 5000 bucks worth of hearing aids (no trouble according to him) after serving 3-4 years in the Navy back in early 50's. Never on a ship so no big guns ond only lost his hearing in later years, he is in his early 80s. now! Got them 3 year ago! I have no service connected stuff but my wife said I should do like he did and I refused. Lost my hearing working in an oil refinery.

[gwp]

Last year I went to the Indianapolis VA for a hearing test. I do not have a documented service related disability but I wanted an unbiased evaluation of my hearing loss. I was told with my hearing loss I would only find hearing aids useful for a few minutes a day. He also told me to make an appointment when the hearing loss was greater because the VA now provides hearing aids without service related proof.

[holdover]

"IF you have an application in for a claim, just go straight to the Disabled American Veterans website and seek out where you can get help. They will assign you legal counsel and get this sorted out much faster. "

The DAV is my rep, they don't seem to have much luck either, next stop is my congressman.

[Former Cav]

your congressman cant do SQUAT either because the VA is "cabinet level".
I've been screwing with them since 1969! and they still don't have it right. Meanwhile, I look at non-combat guys rated at 100% and I wonder WTF! I got very physical visual stuff wrong with me from RPG fragments and it is like it doesn't count.
Hell, I can't even get a new I.D. card and have been trying for 15 + years. I still have my "max clelland purple triangle bolo badge card" that is disintigrating!!

[madsenshooter]

I know someone will stand up and say I'm racist. But, I think what would help the VA most is to get some staff that doesn't speak with a foreign accent. Most of the Drs are people who couldn't maintain a practice outside of the VA. Their decision making skills are not up to the task, and a poor decision can cost a life. I know, they about cost me mine.

[Art]

I know someone will stand up and say I'm racist. But, I think what would help the VA most is to get some staff that doesn't speak with a foreign accent. Most of the Drs are people who couldn't maintain a practice outside of the VA. Their decision making skills are not up to the task, and a poor decision can cost a life. I know, they about cost me mine.

Been to any non V.A. civilian docs?? Its the same only much better care because it isn't "single payer." American kids are too fat, lazy and entitled to go to medical school, hell, that's too much like work, too little fun and takes too long with way too long a wait to get any money. Foreigners have taken up the slack and not just at the V.A.

My personal experience with doctors, nurses, ect. is that ethnicity doesn't mean much but venue does. The Houston Medical Center is one of the finest complexes in the World and it looks like the U.N. dumped it's staff there. I now help support a family doctor (white gal from New York,) a cardiologist (Chinese man,) a surgeon (Latino male,) a gastro interologist (Arab male,) a urologist (plain vanilla white American guy,) and a Dermatologist and an Opthamologist (nice Jewish girl and boy,) and an endocrinologist (another Chinese fellow) Sounds like the United Nations all over. Every doc I go to is top of the line and if they aren't I fire them. You don't get to do that with the V.A. It's about venue.

After my experience with those quacks I delt with in the Army I'd never go to the V.A. as long as I have another option. Its the 'gubmint. These people have a "birds nest on the ground" and that goes all the way to the top.

.....and I do understand that the quality of V.A. care varies a lot depending on where you are.