Decreasing Vet Disability Claims

[COOL BREEZE]

This is in regards to those who think that one way to reduce the budget is to decrease the money paid to Vet Claims for disability. (various news stories on this and other forums) There are those who think that just the severely wounded Vets from combat should only receive compensation. Claims for sexual dysfunction, hemorrhoids(just using this as example only), ect should be discontinued. Oh we can really cut down on the billions paid out on VA claims yearly. Here is some food for thought. When you join the military,Uncle Sam owns your body. When you have to lug around hundreds of pounds of equipment, straining your back, eating high cholestrol military food , working in a noisy environment-flight deck, airfield ect. you just did your job as what the military expects. This is not a laid back civilian job 8-5 pm. We folks in the military are very unique. We serve our country . The damage done to our bodies caused by the military things we do are justified by the compensation that we have to fight for long and hard. The government owes us vets for all the physical and mental issues caused by our service.

[carlie]

Cool Breeze,

I've been around here quite a while now.

I do not know of ANYONE here that expresses thoughts of,

"one way to reduce the budget is to decrease the money paid to Vet Claims for disability."

[COOL BREEZE]

This is in regards to those who think that one way to reduce the budget is to decrease the money paid to Vet Claims for disability. (various news stories on this and other forums) There are those who think that just the severely wounded Vets from combat should only receive compensation. Claims for sexual dysfunction, hemorrhoids(just using this as example only), ect should be discontinued. Oh we can really cut down on the billions paid out on VA claims yearly. Here is some food for thought. When you join the military,Uncle Sam owns your body. When you have to lug around hundreds of pounds of equipment, straining your back, eating high cholestrol military food , working in a noisy environment-flight deck, airfield ect. you just did your job as what the military expects. This is not a laid back civilian job 8-5 pm. We folks in the military are very unique. We serve our country . The damage done to our bodies caused by the military things we do are justified by the compensation that we have to fight for long and hard. The government owes us vets for all the physical and mental issues caused by our service.

What I actually was referring to was lately there was 2 national articles in my newspaper(don't know if this was sent out nationwide-i expect it may have) discussing this issue. And of course I recall seeing 1 post on this forum. I thought this was very disturbing-hopefully this didn't ratttle anyones nerves too much. The thought of reducing the budget by looking at how much is paid toward VA disability claims really irrates me. Perhaps the subject title should have been worded differently-My apologize

[john999]

Cool

I think there are those in this country who would like to reduce the deficit by cutting veteran's compensation. You won't hear many disabled veterans saying that. I see your point. What a certain number of those who walk the halls of power in congress and corporate American would like to do is give vets a handshake and a kick in the ass. It was not until WWII that there was even a G.I. Bill. These are the same people who want to cut SSA benefits and medicare benefits.

[Pete53]

Number One its not going to happen, Trust me if anything the VA I have dealt with for over 19 years is getting better and I doubt there are many politicians who are willing to take on Veterans.

[SLEDGE]

Statistically speaking in percentage terms,

how much of the Federal budget is actually spent on veteran's medical needs?

Not the Grand-Total amount supposedly allocated to all things in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

I'm curious if our stats hungry government even knows how much is health care and how much is spent on window dressing?

Parade grounds, staff cars, wasted space, extra employees and shrubs don't count as health care.

After they almost killed me cleaning out an artery I was sent home a bleeding, dripping, bloody mess because they couldn't afford a new bandage to cover up the worst suturing job I have ever seen.

Not enough money in the budget of intensive care.

Intensive care was in the process of an expansion while I was there.

Adding 4 new beds in a totally, newly constructed area that was being added on.

(That's what they told me and my wife, I ain't making this up.)

I had to leave the medical facility grounds and go to the nearest grocery store for bandaging materials so my wife could replace the dripping stuff with new materials.

I had bled through the hospital bandaging stuff onto my clothing before they released me to go home and dripping blood onto the carseat was not a good idea.

sledge

Edited September 2, 2010 by SLEDGE

[COOL BREEZE]

Cool

I think there are those in this country who would like to reduce the deficit by cutting veteran's compensation. You won't hear many disabled veterans saying that. I see your point. What a certain number of those who walk the halls of power in congress and corporate American would like to do is give vets a handshake and a kick in the ass. It was not until WWII that there was even a G.I. Bill. These are the same people who want to cut SSA benefits and medicare benefits.

Thanks for that good response. I thought I would just share some disturbing media issues that were in my local newspaper that makes my stomach upset. I am deciding If I am going to blast them as anti-military or what. Its hard enough to fight to get what little the VA gives you. I do know as a military retire also using tri-care prime-Congress and the Senate have been trying for years to raise the annual payments we have to pay, however with all the military organizations fighting for us(they were advised to look elsewhere to reduce the budget-another way to take it out on us vets) as another method to reduce the budget. So by trying to raise tri-care payments and reducing VA disability payments-there will be one hell of fight to the end.