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Please order Trump, Musk and their ilk to stand down! ..that they must keep "hands-off" of all Veterans affairs! Do not allow them to touch our services or benefits. Thank you, Freddie

How much is spent on outsourcing C&P exams annually? Also, can you provide a list of which federal representatives voted against veterans' interests in the past 10 years?

Why is it that I, a Desert Storm combat veteran with direct exposure to burning oil fields and a triggered NBC detector, cannot get approval for any damage claims except the generic "tinnitus, 10%"? Why does the PACT Act seemingly not apply to me, considering I answered the questions in 2022 and still cannot get a response?
Why is it that in my VA hospital common drug addicts with no combat exposure can get over 100% disability?

('Apologies if variations of my question pop up together. Every time I try to post RallyPoint wants deeper levels of access to my data, making me start over. There's no telling when it will stop.)

The disabled veteran population contains many terminally ill patients. Are there any plans in the works to offer voluntary assisted dying, also refered to euthanasia, "dying with dignity", or "medical assistance in dying"?

How to get acceptable medical care? I have had to hire and pay for medical the VA can't, won't, or have a bad attitude of providing. PTSD and MST are poorly treated. I'm tired of getting shit and attitude from VA medical. Female therapists for MST counseling. How smart you have to be to figure this out?

Has the VA ever done an audit to find out how many veterans had the educational benefits expire during COVID. If not why. If So why can't those benefits be restored /grandfathered so they can still be used for veterans who were unable to take any specific training /courses that were not available due to COVID restrictions.

I had recently read an article that talked about the Army, National Guard, and VA are trying to address the issue of traditional National Guard members being denied for disability because, as acknowledged by the above listed departments, we either just "suck it up and move on" or we are seen by our own doctors, thereby not creating the evidence that would be required if a VA disability claim were filed. Even being seen by our battalion medics don't create any sort of paperwork that would be needed to support our claim. What's worse, is having Tricare Reserve Select and finding out that the billing codes that specify what you were being seen for by your private provider, are not added to your service record or seemingly not accessible to those who are deciding whether your injuries are service connected.

So my question is this, how are we supposed to get the support that we have earned when the system for deciding claims is not set up to account for the lack of evidence through no fault of our own, either because the private medical records were purged and no longer available, or the VA contractor doesn't consider how repetitive damage from injuries can accumulate and make conditions such as arthritis that much worse as the soldier get older before we finally ask the VA for help.

Also, if so inclined to answer another question.

How does a traditional National Guard soldier with measurable hearing loss and tinnitus, only get approved for tinnitus while the hearing loss is deemed "Not Service Connected", especially when the contractor administering the yearly hearing tests while the soldier is still serving, has to ask the soldier to retest multiple times the same day while only providing record of a single test?

Science-less forced masking and EUA injections, will that ever be a thing ever again, now that all information regarding is showing mass overreach of Federal Govt. against a myriad of body sovereignty laws? ACA, GINA, Civil Rights act of 1984, Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, Constitutional Law, etc.

The patient advocates are not helpful for veterans when encountering physicians that are intentionally denying patients access to healthcare that has been earned. What improvements are going to be made to better equip the patient advocates to properly support veterans when facing barriers created by physicians at the VA? 11/8/24

Mr. McDonough, I understand that there are policies and rules in place regarding how the Department of Veterans Affairs decides whether a veteran qualifies for compensation and the amount they receive. I also recognize the importance of preventing fraud. However, when a veteran is visibly showing signs of pain and experiencing physical and/or mental trauma, why is it still so difficult for them to receive compensation?