High Income Va Rejects Vietnam Veteran

[buickx]

Just had the second Vietnam Veteran rejected for va medical help....both were told they both make to much money after filling out income disclusure ..whats up with this?

[buickx]

When I first started using the va in 2000, and had private insurance, I never got charged for anything and I was at 0 service connected. This billing your insurance co started about 3 yrs ago..

[john999]

The VA even billed my insurance for a C&P exam. The only reason I go to the VA is to get free pills and to keep documenting my claims. It is more a ritual than treatment. The VA believes that if you are not getting continuous treatment you are probably getting better, so why not try and reduce you? If by some chance I do ever depend on the VA for care I want everything documented including my death and autopsy.

[jbasser]

I had an uncle that was turned away when he retired.

Funny thing is he has been 10 percent for 40 years.

Got it corrected for him and he is now in Group 3.

A lot of these Means Test Clerks dont know the difference between duck crap and apple butter.

J

Edited November 27, 2009 by jbasser

[Testvet]

I had an uncle that was turned away when he retired.

Funny thing is he has been 10 percent for 40 years.

Got it corrected for him and he is now in Group 3.

A lot of these Means Test Clerks dont know the difference between duck crap and apple butter.

J

exactly and they screw over to many veterans they don't know to have the vets deduct any medical expenses for them and their families to get below the annual amount they just use any excuse to turn away people

[Testvet]

The whole idea of charging co-pays to vets at a VAMC burns my ass. Any vet without insurance should be able to use the VA regardless of income. The larger the number of vets who get care at the VA the larger the constituency of potential voters. That means more money for the VA. If vets had world class care including dental and vision care it would help draw people into the military. As it is I think those who volunteer now do so because of lack of other opportunity. The USA has always gotten away with shortchanging its veterans. That should stop. I think most Vietnam vets will eventually find some AO disease to get SC'ed for since the list is expanding.

John to many of them even sick still will not even go near a VA one because they don't want anything to do with the government, or they tried and got screwed over when I first started to file a claim in Feb 97 when I had my bypass surgery the VSO pizzed me off so bad I walked away before the claim was ever filed "I admit I wasn't very smart, hell it took an attorney to help me win and 7 years" rofl maybe writing all those letters to the Congressmen and Senators didn't help either now my letter to Bush got me 50% and a year later after I wrote Cheney I got 100% PTSD then it took what 3 years before BVA awarded the heart conditions as secondary to PTSD and they never did address the exposures to LSD and other toxic materials at Edgewood, the BVA Judge put it into the records but not the VARO, they managed to ignore the issue since Oct 2002

[Testvet]

The VA even billed my insurance for a C&P exam. The only reason I go to the VA is to get free pills and to keep documenting my claims. It is more a ritual than treatment. The VA believes that if you are not getting continuous treatment you are probably getting better, so why not try and reduce you? If by some chance I do ever depend on the VA for care I want everything documented including my death and autopsy.

then you need to die at a regular hospital and not the VA do you really want your wife to have to use a VA autopsy to fight them with? Aren't you close to the 10 year rule yet? I thought if you die after being SC for 10 years at 100% it doesn't matter what you die from the VA continues the DIC payments when we die I know the wife has to file for DIC and she knows where to go and she will need a copy of thedeath certificate and she knows where the award letters are etc..... or am I wrong about the DIC after 10 years regadless of the reason of death?