What Is Your Number One Complaint About The Va?

[Slowlane]

If you had a chance to "air" your number one complaint about the VA what would it be?

1. Medical care?

2. Claim backlog wait time?

3. Total communication breakdown (no way to make your point)?

4. C&P lies?

5. Hamster wheel tactics and deny deny until they die? (my favorite)

CNN has opened the nations eyes over the medical scheduling crimes. Jeff Miller has said that "this is just the tip of the iceberg". CNN has a "Contact Us" link on their website.

This might be our big chance of get some national attention on some of the above items if this (Hadit) website could unite together and go forth in numbers.

However, sadly, this thread will die in less than three days. No messages will go forward to CNN. An opportunity to get some attention before the latest scandal blows over will be lost.

Slowlane

[Slowlane]

I don't see one complaint of us all banding together will work....

I have filed many complaints between last week and this week.And am preparing more.

As Notorious Kelly said here, we need to tell our individual stories.

Or just email /snail mail the entities like H VAC, AL, CNN, Fox etc and tell them to come here to hadit and read what veterans and survivors really go through with VA.

I have been here for about 16 years I guess and the true picture of the claims process ,not in every case, but for too many of us, has been frustrating and needlessly lengthy.

If you have probative evidence, you have a valid claim and the VA cannot ignore that evidence but they will.

The very fact that most of us succeed years after the initial filing of our claims, and after often more then one denial, proves that our VAROs are not following basic VA 101.

I often say it is illiteracy and laziness but the truth is that management.of these ROs either don't have a clue about what their VSMs and raters do or they have made their own ways of dealing with appearing to reduce the backlog, at each RO, to get bonuses.

Same as the director of Phoenix.did regarding the vet deaths there.

Maybe others will agree with your idea.And that will be great.

How do you intend to prepare one complaint.on behalf of so many ?

How would we even identify who we are...many here have handles.

Who would get the complaint?

Maybe some class action lawyer will read all this Slowlane and they can join us at hadit and provide a solution.

Dont take what I said personally---I definitely strongly commend you for looking to take action.

Berta, you have brought up a lot of questions that need answers. Perhaps they should be taken on one at a time to keep down complication. I have already seen a lot replies that are completely off base to this thread. If this "class action complaint" ever does get off the ground maybe this site could give it a dedicated area to grow. Who knows, their may be only a hand full of legitimate complaints and the rest are BS then, we could just close down this entire website. Dont take what I said personally. I have nothing but respect for you. Slowlane.

[Slowlane]

Class action complaint!!!!!!!

Take one complaint at a time and see how many Vets will attach their names to it. How many names would be proof that the complaint is validated and get the attention of a major media outlet?

I still like: "C&P exams that are directed to be unfavorable to the Veteran."

[BlastDaddy]

Class action complaint!!!!!!!

Take one complaint at a time and see how many Vets will attach their names to it. How many names would be proof that the complaint is validated and get the attention of a major media outlet?

I still like: "C&P exams that are directed to be unfavorable to the Veteran."

I used a C&P exam and a review of evidence that was submitted but never reviewed because Berta suggested. I hope it blows things out of the water on her other link Charles Kelley posted yesterday.

Way to go Berta.

[hmcquade]

Nice work Hugh. I added on in red.

Thanks we have to stop this. At the end of my appeal hearing in Detroit for the Tinnitus denial I told the VA Lawyer, that this kind of treatment of Veterans must be stopped.

Hugh

[Commander Bob]

If you had a chance to "air" your number one complaint about the VA what would it be?

Decades of systematic failure.

[ArNG11]

the senseless suffering and deaths of veterans and families who should be getting the care and assistance that they have rightfully earned and deserve!