InfantryAndIntel

LOL. I'm not laughing at you. I am laughing at how corrupt the VA is and no one, not POTUS, not SCOTUS, not any member of Congress will hold them accountable. I'm laughing more because someone pointed out that they are "doctor shopping." This is nothing new in the corruption of American government. The FBI is notorious for this with judges. Get shot down by one judge, FIND ANOTHER! It is quite simply visible and open corruption. Government employees in any agency who have an agenda will shop around for "expertise" and bias "opinions" they want to shift their agenda. In truth, the VA is severely underfunded. I have run the numbers and I estimate that the VA actually needs about 3 times its current budget to actually provide good healthcare, just compensation, and competition to clear out society's lazy dirtbags currently working at the VA. Because the budget is behind and the amount of Veterans that need care and compensation, they have a secret program to deny care and compensation as much as possible without causing public outrage. Of course, your neighbor that claims to be pro Veteran and has a yellow ribbon, really does not care about you getting top healthcare. The "patriotism" and the yellow ribbon are for image and self stroking. I'm sorry, this is reality. I just finished reporting to a Senator who claims to be pro Veteran, but he turned my case over to his staff, who lazily and blindly accepted a quick and corrupt answer from a VA patient advocate. Patient advocates ARE VA employees, they ARE NOT on your side. It is quite a show. "Pro Veteran" Veterans, Citizens, and people in government with power (Congress), at the end of the day, do not care about Veterans. It is a great show. Trust me, if people really cared, the VA would have a larger budget and would be fixed by now. The VA now exists solely to provide lazy dirtbags in society a job. It also is a training and staging ground for newly trained and poor performing graduates to make healthcare mistakes on you before they get accepted into a real practice where results count. Rejoice Veterans! You have been used, abused, and now you are just an experiment and reason to give low performers a guaranteed job. I'll quote Metallica, "sad but true."

Good. Any one affected permanently by the Military needs top health care outside of the worthless VA and commensurate compensation for total and illegal garbage that affected them. I hope it bankrupts Congress, so that Congress has to cede pay to pay for it all. Any one out there that had to struggle and then had to fight the VA, hopefully SCOTUS has your score coming. Long time coming. Citizen and government, don't thank me, I don't care about your yellow ribbon, put your money where your mouth is, FIX THE VA and make sure struggling Veterans receive proper compensation.

SSDI has a much higher standard for disability. For approval they want to know that you are "dead in the water" and completely incapable of work. You are going to have to prove this medically and with your lifestyle. They will be checking both. I don't know your story, but please do not go for SSDI unless you really are incapable of any type of work. Also, it would look obviously suspicious to SSA if they find you are living an active and fun lifestyle. They will be looking. OK, if you feel you meet the high standard for SSDI, then read this. Get the ball started by applying, and trust me you are going to get denied. They will bring up any excuse, even if you are disabled, to push you off. Even if you match their criteria, they will deny you. You will likely get denied twice. This is when you have an option to go before an SSA judge to plead your case. When you get there, MONTHS before you meet the judge, get an SSDI lawyer with a good record. Most of them require pay only if you win and the SSA will pay them directly. Please do not try to fool the SSDI lawyer, they will also be checking to see if you are truly disabled. I wish you luck. If you are truly disabled and greatly hindered, then the SSA owes you some assistance. Just keep in mind, there have been total, non-Veteran, scammers that have received SSDI for crap like "high anxiety" and they were never in any traumatic situation.

Yes, it is a canned answer. Typical government employee deflection. Probably a member of a Federal union. What worked for me is a US Representative staffer essentially harassed the VA by calling them every week and asking questions. The VA soon expedited my case and did everything they said they could not do. VA employees can make anything happen when they are being investigated. If you ever find you are getting canned answers and deflection, stop working with the VA. The VA just wants you to go away. It's because they are underfunded and can not support all of the Veteran cases from hospital care to disability/compensation. And of course, no fault of the VA, they have to deal with a lot of scammers like Mrs. Navy, "well, I guess I could claim PTSD." You "guess?" LOL. If you have a real case and the VA is denying you or moving too slow, get a lawyer and a member of Congress on it. VA employees do not like scrutiny and they do not want to go to court where their corruption will be massively exposed. A member of Congress, a lawyer, and a judge are all going to be asking VA employees to provide reason. Trust me, they won't be able to provide it. The VA is just a massive government agency that runs itself and the majority of its employees are do-nothings that just wanted a government union job. More surprisingly, yes I have met them, there are people that actually hate Veterans and Military. At the end of the day, the VA does not want to help you. So, you have to go outside for answers and bring the law back with you. When law gets involved, the VA will start to make things happen. Sad, but true.

https://nffe.org/nffe_news/triumph-va-agrees-to-rescind-patient-recording-policy-after-nffe-takes-action-to-protect-employee-and-patient-privacy-patient-privacy/ This might be old, but I just found it, because I was wondering if I could record VA employees. Well, it seems the VA is really all about the fox guarding the hen house. Just look at the wording from the NFFE. “I am very proud that NFFE was able to stop this harmful and short-sighted policy change that would have opened a Pandora’s Box of problems at the VA.” This is a clear argument that they don't want VA problems to come to court, voter view, or to government inspection. Ask yourself, "why would I be against evidence?" The NFFE is obviously against evidence, because they know they protect bad employees. "the high standard of care provided by NFFE-IAM members would not be compromised." LOL. We all know VA employees do not have high standards. The VA low balls for the cheapest and most unprofessional workers. The VA was already caught hiring desperate doctors that had their licenses revoked. My VA, in particular, is in the city center, so it hires a lot of unprofessional types. Trust me, I have got some of them fired or they quit. Here is another one, "This will allow us to use more discretion in treating veterans, which is critical. This was an important victory for veterans and VA employees.” "This will allow us to use more discretion in treating veterans." "Discretion." Think about that. What they really mean is "we can act as we please without the threat of gathering evidence to give justice to Veterans who are receiving awful care." Please, no one who has worked with the VA is going to believe NFFE arguments against recording. Open and blatant corruption. Imagine you are at a trial, and the judge says, "I'm not going to allow any evidence, because I care for the defendant and the prosecution." LOL. That is the NFFE argument. SMH. Open and blatant corruption. Of course, this will never get to SCOTUS. Ask yourself, "If I am recording a conversation between just me and the VA employee, how do I affect someone else's privacy?" See, the NFFE easily twisted the truth to fake a problem that would not occur. Open and blatant corruption. I am for some unions, but Federal unions have to go. The VA should not be subject to a union. Fox guarding the hen house.

Hello I know some of you have already dealt with this. I have dealt with some extremely bad VA employees from nurses, to doctors, to counter workers, to psychologists. Just wanted to pick everyone's brains on what's the best method to expose and get bad employees out of the VA. We all know, it's been well documented, the VA protects bad employees. We also know that the VA does not have the proper funding to attract good people. Does anyone have any concrete ways to get bad VA employees out? You know the ones I'm talking about, no concern for Veterans, but love that paycheck! Bad attitudes, ignoring problems, protecting VA corruption, etc. Patient advocate won't work, that's the fox guarding the hen house, because they are VA employees. I just caught one defending the VA against a nurse who let me know some truth. I find Congress to be spotty as I had one Rep. completely on a warpath with the VA. Her successor won't even get back to me or acknowledge VA problems, though she claims, "Veterans first!" Yeah right. Any ideas that have worked for you? I would like to get a VA with good people and I want my fellow Veterans to be getting the BEST customer service and care. Thanks