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Va Still Sabotaging Veterans’ Choices

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Veterans Administration top brass are trying again to sabotage the Choice program, which supposedly allows vets to see a doctor outside the delay-plagued VA system. On Thursday, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan D. Gibson will ask Congress for permission to raid the $10 billion Choice fund and spend the money elsewhere. It’s an underhanded betrayal, but no surprise. Since the celebrated VA reform law was passed last August, VA administrators, from Secretary Robert McDonald down to union underlings, have been trying every trick to block sick vets from getting outside treatment. The bureaucrats are more concerned with keeping the money inside the dysfunctional agency than caring for vets, even if that means they languish and suffer on wait lists.

http://spectator.org/articles/63218/va-still-sabotaging-veterans%E2%80%99-choices

"A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life."


10% 1992

10% 1995

10% 2000

10% 2005

10% 2010

10% 2015

2015- found out that I have Post Concussion Syndrome(not SC), Stationed at contaminated installations

Still at that great 10% !!!!!!

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Berta
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I think too many outside doctors , looking over past VA med recs, will find too many instances of VA malpractice. And I think that is something VA is afraid of.

Notorious Kelly
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Wow. Well-written article that confirms unions can be vets' biggest enemy.

john999
john999

The VA is afraid transition to medicare-like program is coming and they will lose their useless jobs. VA a is wonderful welfare program for politicians, contractors, doctors, nurses and all that staf

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The VA is afraid transition to medicare-like program is coming and they will lose their useless jobs. VA a is wonderful welfare program for politicians, contractors, doctors, nurses and all that staff that never looks up when you stand in front of them. VA system is a fraud. There is no "system" in the VA. Just battles between little empires within the VA health care system. All this new construction could be used to actually treat veterans instead of creating jobs for non-vets who are parasites on us. The VA is sort of like WWP. The staff make money while the vets get crumbs. Anyone who joins the military and does not expect to get screwed by the military and VA is a fool. I was a young fool. Now I am an old fool. Maybe the army is better than prison?

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I think too many outside doctors , looking over past VA med recs, will find too many instances of VA malpractice.

And I think that is something VA is afraid of.

GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !

When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief

Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was

simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."

Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.

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My thoughts too Ms berta

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I am not an Attorney or VSO, any advice I provide is not to be construed as legal advice, therefore not to be held out for liable BUCK!!!

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