Suicide among veterans: Their silent protest over broken VA system
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2018
- Some veterans say they cannot get the care they need after serving our country. Learn how some of them are making their final act a silent protest of what they call a broken system.
This is true the VA does a very poor job keeping up-to-date appointments constantly doctors being replaced so basically you have to start from scratch every time you go there so anybody with PTSD Hester relive all there history to another doctor who will probably only be there two three weeks before they move on it is just totally unacceptable for what we'd given to our country we can't even have proper Medical Care
The doctors aren't replaced. They're just leaving the VA. Doctors, and anyone in the medical field, is in high demand for work. They don't need to put up with the VAs nonsense, and can go somewhere else that will pay them literally 2-3x what the VA pays. A lot of doctors use it as a point on their resume, and leave as soon as they can. I've had 4 primary care doctors in a year because the VA can't keep them. The ones they do have, are the ones who can't get hired anywhere else.
I had no idea there were others with the same plan as me.
I've been waiting one year for a biopsy. I've now done my second white house complaint. The VA needs to be shut down.
Took me two years to get a appointment to see a Urologist (Saginaw VA)...
As a marine vet more vets need to off themselves to make a statement to the va/vba that we were there they weren’t. Our exposers in combat are being covered up and vets are losing hope that the truth will come out
This drives me crazy my father uses Leavenworth.
Unacceptable. I will not allow this to continue.
What are you gonna do about it!!! Talk is cheap just like the VA!!
I've called that number twice. No follow up , no help. Coming up on the 30th anniversary of Desert Storm. I plan on protesting, and then we'll see where it goes from there.
Shut up.... Nobody owes you shit...
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crisis line is bs i've been hung up on several times
for nightmares try to get some minipress it really helps.
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Take some responsibility ! You have 8 priority groups.
Chewed up and spat out - hope you are in a better place.
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It varies from clinic to clinic and hospital to hospital. Also, although the VA staff deny it, the level and quality of care a veteran gets depends on his VA disability rating as well as stuff like rank and decorations a guy received in the service. And of course, former POWs and Medal of Honor recipients get very high-priority treatment -- which I believe they deserve. I was career Army, retired as a senior officer (enlisted for 5 years before OCS) and am rated permanently and totally disabled by the VA. Wounded a few times, etc. Frankly, I often think the VA goes overboard with me; the slightest thing and they put me in the hospital, but when I first got into their system, I got the atrocious treatment described here. The thing is, if some vet with, say, a 30% VA disability rating or below kills himself or kicks over from a heart attack on the way back to his car after seeing a cardiologist, it's no big deal. BUT if a highly decorated retired senior officer rated 100% permanently and totally disabled falls over dead in the same manner, the media and veterans' organizations would crucify them. So yes, the quality of care IS contingent on such factors, even though no VA employee will EVER admit it.
I agree totally! I was group 7 with no disability and the care is abysmal. I recently became a group 1 and 50% disabled so it should be interesting to see if my care improves....
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And you accomplished absolutely nothing!!