Veterans Support Group
This community is dedicated to all veterans of armed forces, and the health and life challenges they face. A veteran often refers to retired armed services personnel, one one who has served in the armed forces and has an honorable discharge. Join many others in sharing your experiences to find support.
If you have any other possible options for getting your healthcare, use those options and stay away from VA healthcare completely.
I had VA healthcare for a few years until their level of incompetency became unbelievable. They were dishonest and abusive towards me. They refused to treat the medical conditions I had, and instead insisted that I had other medical conditions which I did not have, and then proceeded to try to treat me for non-existent medical conditions.
The Veterans Administration is really just an affirmative-action program for hiring people who would otherwise be unemployable because they don't have the basic competency needed to find work in the private sector or at other public sector employers.
You deserve better.
I had VA healthcare for a few years until their level of incompetency became unbelievable. They were dishonest and abusive towards me. They refused to treat the medical conditions I had, and instead insisted that I had other medical conditions which I did not have, and then proceeded to try to treat me for non-existent medical conditions.
The Veterans Administration is really just an affirmative-action program for hiring people who would otherwise be unemployable because they don't have the basic competency needed to find work in the private sector or at other public sector employers.
You deserve better.
In one case, after the nurse saw me, I started to cough really bad, to the point of puking. Normally, it's maybe 10 minutes before I'm seen, average. That time, it was about 30 minutes. When I'm coughing that violently and loudly, why didn't even a nurse of some sort come in to see me?
Another time, I was having a coughing fit, which the doc was almost beside himself with...at the end of the meet, he said "...when you have those, come in." REALLY! I'm about 30 minutes away, and I'm supposed to come in, when I'm coughing so hard, I can't see? And by the time I'd get there, it clears. Wasted time!
I've also complained about knee issues, and X-Rays show nothing. I recently(ish) had a Naturo-path just look at the knees, and said "Oh, yes. You have knee issues." How's that?