Va Hospitals Make "5 Worst Government Services List"

[broncovet]

According to Fox News, VA Hospitals make the "5 Worst Government Services" list.

This is not news to Veterans, I personally think that the VA is over rated. For example, Professor Linda Bilmes has suggested the VA improve by adopting the IRS "Pay it Now" method to Veterans claims.

Video here:

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4254372/the-nations-five-worst-government-services/?playlist_id=87089

[Teac]

CB,

Vets can sue the VA for mal-practice by way of filing a Federal Tort Claim and/or an 1151 VBA claim.

I did and won through mediation.

It's not a whole lot different than having to sue a private/regular hospital for additional

residual disability.

You were one of the lucky ones.. My tort claim was in the system for 2 years when my lawyer dropped my case, and I can't find another lawyer. As to the 1151 claim, well it has been 23 months and still no c/p.....If I was suing a private

hospital I would have already won,

[Wings]

Yeah but that's your choice. I've been telling you for a bazillion years to go for SSDI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never mind the retro award. Your choice!!! Duh!!!

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I am NOT frikn' eligible for SSDI. I have told you this many times. DUH yourself!!!!! ~Wings

[Testvet]

I have been treated just as bad if not worse at private hospitals and not all VAMCs are the same you could not pay me to go into Dorn about 5 miles from my house and I willingly drive 70 miles to Augusta VAMC as I have an excellent Primary Care doc, psychiatrist and would not get better care anywhere in Agusta

not to beat a dead horse to death but VA Medical centers have nothing to do with Linda Bilmes and the claims process that she advocates changing to the IRS system of processing accept them onn face value and then audit the ones that make the alarm bells go off the cooks who went on secret black ops and their files are top secret and not even the DOD can authorize the VA to review them you all have heard the war stories that even make us laugh in disgust

yes there are stories of bad medical treatment at the VA across the nation but then again there are also stories of bad treatment at medical centers across the nation that the hospitals settle out of court all the time standard business VA settlements are open records as part of FOIA requests

GM despite people's political ideals is not a government agency it is a stock owned business that will be sold to private investors and the taxpayers money refunded if govt action had not been taken when it was to save all of the us auto dealers even Ford who didn't need the funds would have forced into bankruptcy as parts supplies would have been forced out of business if GM and Chrysler had been folded now we still have the million plus jobs and American are now buying more GM and Ford and Chryslers than foreign auto's the taxpayers may actually make a profit on the deal before it is over but it is not a govt service like the Post Office, the IRS, the VA, the FDA nor the EPA and no not all of them make money govts function is not to make a profit it is to provide services that average citizens can not do for them selves like provide military service, intelligence service, highways, FBI etc the revolution to privatize as many govt jobs did not help us in many ways it has caused the cost of these functions to rise tremendously some of these jobs should be returned to federal service and take private contractors out of the loop because the jobs are still going to be done just should we be rewarding CEOs and stockholders with profits on jobs that should be done by govt employees?

The VA has is't problems but it is not all bad.........lord knows I dislike the claims process......9 years was just plain bad