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Va Choice Cards

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Many Veterans will now have the option to receive non-VA health care rather than waiting for a VA appointment or traveling to a VA facility.

Beginning November 5, 2014, the new Choice Program will begin to cover non-VA care for eligible Veterans enrolled in VA healthcare. Veterans are eligible if any of these situations apply to you:

You have been told by your local VA medical facility that you will need to wait more than 30 days from your preferred date or the date medically determined by your physician

Your current residence is more than 40 miles from the closest VA health care facility

You need to travel by plane or boat to the VA medical facility closest to your home

You face a geographic challenge, such as extensive distances around water or other geologic formations, such as mountains, which presents a significant travel hardship

More info at:

http://www.va.gov/opa/choiceact/

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  • HadIt.com Elder

VA sent me a Handbook about 4 months ago its called ''Veterans Health Benefits Handbook''

Letter says We are pleased to present you your personalized Veterans Health Benefits Handbook.

It has my rating and priority group & most all health benefits...Maybe they sent it to All veterans.

I can't get a Choice Card my VAMC is 23 miles away but that don't mean I get excellent care..

If I had a choice I'd like he choice card!

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I live 13.1 miles from my VAMC. There are other qualifiers like waiting more than 30 days to see a doc/ specialist and so on . For now I still have private insurance so I use that while I have it but I am going to look into the program. You never know when you might need it.

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  • Content Curator/HadIt.com Elder

Got my card in the mail. Now to test it out...

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I got referred to a incompetent crooked dentist and a vision center ever father away than the VA. Until the VA just issues us all cards like Medicare they can shove it. I want no part of their health care system. I might go just to get pills for free, but you get what you pay for. If you pay nothing you get nothing.

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I got a VA Choice card in the mail today?

I don't qualify ...I live 23 miles from my VAMC....I Guess all veterans will get the card incase someday we qualify?

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I got referred to a incompetent crooked dentist and a vision center ever father away than the VA. Until the VA just issues us all cards like Medicare they can shove it. I want no part of their health care system. I might go just to get pills for free, but you get what you pay for. If you pay nothing you get nothing.

While I sort of agree, I'd point out that you "already paid", and it's more a matter of getting what was paid for by your military service, and entitled to by law.

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