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Full disclosure, I receive treatment at Fort Harrison VAMC and my experience there has been very good. I understand, however, that some veterans' experiences have been less than positive. What are your experiences with the VA and where do you receive service?
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The VA is more than a medical service and I have had two experiences with it.
In the first case I applied for GI Bill benefits to supplement my income while learning a new career on the job. Yes, veterans could use their GI bill for OJT (maybe they still can). My employer filled out the forms and the benefits began almost immediately. Of course, that was about forty years ago.
About 30 years ago, I purchased a home using a GI loan. My application had been disapproved because the realtor made errors in the application. I fixed them, visited the VA offices in LA, and had my approval after a 15 minute wait and another 15 minutes in face time with the VA representative.
That was then.
This is now.
What's happened at the VA?
People are denied benefits.
Are the complaints all coming from people who were denied benefits because they simply didn't qualify?
That may explain some of it.
We read of corruption and secret waiting lists.
That can't be explained away. Something has happened.
I believe two things have happened.
Firstly, like the IRS, the VA may be weaponized to discomfort those who are opposed to the ideology that prevails in Washington. Veterans tend to be conservative. Their votes are not for sale like the unentitled who are selling theirs to incumbents and rewarded with entitlement programs.
Secondly, the staff at the VA, like all other bureaucracies, are members of public service unions. They weren't when I visited them and applied for benefits. The public service unions have sold their votes to the incumbents in exchange for generous wages and benefits, as well as retirement incomes that represent an unfunded liability that no amount of taxation can ever hope to pay. They have become self-serving. Their clients, us, the veterans, are nowhere on their radar.
Then again, I may be wrong...
In the first case I applied for GI Bill benefits to supplement my income while learning a new career on the job. Yes, veterans could use their GI bill for OJT (maybe they still can). My employer filled out the forms and the benefits began almost immediately. Of course, that was about forty years ago.
About 30 years ago, I purchased a home using a GI loan. My application had been disapproved because the realtor made errors in the application. I fixed them, visited the VA offices in LA, and had my approval after a 15 minute wait and another 15 minutes in face time with the VA representative.
That was then.
This is now.
What's happened at the VA?
People are denied benefits.
Are the complaints all coming from people who were denied benefits because they simply didn't qualify?
That may explain some of it.
We read of corruption and secret waiting lists.
That can't be explained away. Something has happened.
I believe two things have happened.
Firstly, like the IRS, the VA may be weaponized to discomfort those who are opposed to the ideology that prevails in Washington. Veterans tend to be conservative. Their votes are not for sale like the unentitled who are selling theirs to incumbents and rewarded with entitlement programs.
Secondly, the staff at the VA, like all other bureaucracies, are members of public service unions. They weren't when I visited them and applied for benefits. The public service unions have sold their votes to the incumbents in exchange for generous wages and benefits, as well as retirement incomes that represent an unfunded liability that no amount of taxation can ever hope to pay. They have become self-serving. Their clients, us, the veterans, are nowhere on their radar.
Then again, I may be wrong...
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Personal I haven't had the privilege of using the VA yet. My brother has medically retired and uses them a lot. He dosnt say anything bad about them and seems to be using them with no issues. Has his meds and anything else he needs. Just my .02 and I am here in KS
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I need medical help and wont even go to them because I just dont trust them
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