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Congress Nears Passage of Historic Bipartisan Veterans Bill Offering Sweeping Support Services​

In a significant bipartisan effort to address the multifaceted needs of America’s veterans, Congress is advancing a comprehensive legislative package known as the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act. Set to reform numerous aspects of veterans’ services, including the Department of Veterans Affairs caregiver program, support for veteran homelessness, and the VA’s electronic health records system, the bill reflects a collaborative negotiation between key congressional figures.

House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the top Republican on the Senate committee, have unveiled the agreement which is expected to move through Congress this summer. This breakthrough comes after overcoming financial hurdles regarding offsets for the bills’ costs. The package is fully offset, as touted by the negotiators, releasing a series of legislative efforts previously stalled.

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searcher said:
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A push to cut veterans disability benefits is gaining traction, experts warn

Many Americans don’t understand how difficult it is for veterans to prove that their health conditions stem from their military service.
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Eventually, the Elites...the Globalists who wish us dead...will come to realize, a promise broken, has costs.

Maybe not in law. But in credibility. In legitimacy.

FAR cheaper to just honor the pledge, and exclude newcoming vets, and let time do what it will. To repudiate these pledges...will lead to a French-Revolution-style outrage, the kind of which Kaiser Klaus and Billy Gates...are not prepared for.
 
National Health Care is how other nations take care of their veterans, that way they don't need to play silly games over what is covered and what isn't...
 

Watchdog rebukes VA over failure to refund $110M in medical fees​

A federal watchdog on Wednesday criticized Veterans Affairs leaders for failing to refund millions of dollars in canceled medical co-pay charges to veterans, despite knowing about the problem for years.

The reprimand from the Office of Special Counsel, or OSC, comes after a whistleblower report that department administrators had "no agency policies, procedures, or plans" to get the backlog of repayments addressed despite being aware of the problem.

In messages to OSC, VA officials acknowledged conducting a recent review into the problem and blamed it on staffing issues. They pledged to "stay current with refund requests and work the backlog as time allows."

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Getting re-instated with the VA system here...I found out, on a current bill that listed account history from the previous payment...five years ago...that I had made an overpayment of $30.

ZERO effort went into refunding the payment or notifying me. They went dark, from the time of the Jab Mandates until I went down and pushed the issue and got re-enrolled.

Here, they lost over 50 percent of their staff...many took early retirement. After I was given notice I had 100-percent copayment, after a lump-sum of back payment from Railroad Retirement...I went down to discuss my eligibility with an intake worker - there were none.

I signed in and waited FIVE HOURS. No one even checked the sign-in board. That's how bad it was as Diaperman's puppetmasters were taking over.

That's partially reversed now, but the billing office apparently still gives Zorro Fox.
 
Casey Jones said:
Getting re-instated with the VA system here...I found out, on a current bill that listed account history from the previous payment...five years ago...that I had made an overpayment of $30.

ZERO effort went into refunding the payment or notifying me. They went dark, from the time of the Jab Mandates until I went down and pushed the issue and got re-enrolled.

Here, they lost over 50 percent of their staff...many took early retirement. After I was given notice I had 100-percent copayment, after a lump-sum of back payment from Railroad Retirement...I went down to discuss my eligibility with an intake worker - there were none.

I signed in and waited FIVE HOURS. No one even checked the sign-in board. That's how bad it was as Diaperman's puppetmasters were taking over.

That's partially reversed now, but the billing office apparently still gives Zorro Fox.
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CJ -- Send a REGISTERED letter to the Lord High Pancho of the VA with all the above in it. Carbon copy your Senator.

Yeah, that will take an hour or more of sorta real effort. So do it. They can't shoot you -- that's against the law. The burr under the saddle, the pebble in the shoe, the dust speck in your eye... all little bitty things that get total attention from big things.

(*snork*) I have found that as I enter the Sprintime of my senility, my trigger has a much lighter pull.
 
I don't know what will eventually happen with the VA, but I wouldn't mind being able to use my VA ID card in private practice health care offices, clinics, hospitals, etc. It's a good ride for me to get to my VA primary doc's office and a good ride for me to get to the VA hospital in Philly. My regular primary is a 5-to-8-minute ride from my house and there are a bunch on hospitals near me that are an easy ride to get to. It seems to me that would be the way to go. jm2c

Latest purge at VA hits medical center support staff: ‘Definitely going to hinder care’​


The Department of Veterans Affairs axed another 1,400 workers this week with medical support staff dismissed with little to no warning or consultation with their supervisors at top VA care facilities.

The debate over which employees are considered “non-mission critical” continues after the total number of dismissals in the department has now grown to about 2,400 under the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce following previous cuts on Feb. 13.

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Medical care at my VA has been pretty good. They actually listen to what I have to say and if I dont want to take a med they try and work with me. Statins being a good example. Never really cared for them but they just don't Agree with me at all. They really make me feel like shit so I just stopped taking them and told the Dr's to never try and put me on them again. They complied.
We have tried to figure out my insomnia issue but no luck so far. I even requested a testosterone test to check my levels. All normal.

The my healthy vet site works pretty well too. I just message my Dr or team and within 30 minutes I usually get a phone call to address whatever I need.
I have an appointment today so will see if there have been any changes.
 
Casey Jones said:
Getting re-instated with the VA system here...I found out, on a current bill that listed account history from the previous payment...five years ago...that I had made an overpayment of $30.

ZERO effort went into refunding the payment or notifying me. They went dark, from the time of the Jab Mandates until I went down and pushed the issue and got re-enrolled.

Here, they lost over 50 percent of their staff...many took early retirement. After I was given notice I had 100-percent copayment, after a lump-sum of back payment from Railroad Retirement...I went down to discuss my eligibility with an intake worker - there were none.

I signed in and waited FIVE HOURS. No one even checked the sign-in board. That's how bad it was as Diaperman's puppetmasters were taking over.

That's partially reversed now, but the billing office apparently still gives Zorro Fox.
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Update. Latest VA Follies: During my (re)Intake Physical, the alleged physician discussed a blood-blister on my foot, been there a couple of weeks. Because I'm diabetic, the decision was made to refer me to a podiatrist in town, since they have none in the clinic. I was to be contacted.

Okay, fine. That was, first week of December. No one contacted me. About the time I was gonna use my Medicrap insurance to see someone, the blister cleared. Okay, good. Now I know I can't count on the VA the way I could in 2017-19, when they were pretty good.

Yesterday, out of the blue, I get a call. From a podiatrist's office. To set up an appointment. Almost three months after I was to be referred.

The clerk told me the referral had just come in. I believe it; but it's a hell of a way to run the railroad.
 
Yea there is definitely a difference in quality at all the VA locations. I lucked out and got a good one. Talking with the staff there today they let 7 people go and they were all just hired within the last few months and non medical team personnel.

I think the VA here has everything in house now. It's 30 or 31 buildings. Pool, gym. Pretty much everything.
 
If I did not have a Board Certified doctor as a son (on call 24/7/365) and if I depended only on the VA...

You would not be reading this. I would have died. TWO instances. Here's one:

Had the shivers and shakes and felt like Death taking a shit. The VA gave me a card of pills to take over week. Got my son on the phone, and from Oregon (I'm in Floriduh) he properly diagnosed me with MRSA.

I would have died. As it was, it was a near-run thing in a real hospital, but my son flew in and took over my care. Fuck you VA. You are my hidden enemy just as surely as a dink in the grass.
 
Once you are dead, you cost nothing to the government...I'm not a vet but I try to remember that anyway...
 
Fatrat said:
Once you are dead, you cost nothing to the government...I'm not a vet but I try to remember that anyway...
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Alex Christoforu was talking, yesterday, about a Trump XO establishing a Medical ID card.

Which, of course, leads through the backdoor to a Vaxx Record.

And we KNOW they're just getting the quivers thinking about ramping THAT back up.

Meantime, mRNA is being put into pesticides sprayed on fruits and vegetables. AND...somehow, mysteriously, our cattle herd is evaporating. WHO'D HAVE EVER THUNK.

While the Gates Syn-Meat plants proceed.

They ARE going to try to kill us. I think we're at the mark of Nuclear War. Trump...something has happened to him, and I do not think it's a dubious record of him with a little girl in the Jeffy files.

I suspect it's a delayed Jab injury. He was healthy and vigorous, but that stuff is POISON. It's killing Bubba Klintoon, now, who's having various heart ailments (and has disappeared from mediuh). Five years in, now.

That aside...we KNOW it's a cause-celebre to strip us of meaningful healf kair. That was what CanklesKair was about. Obombahkair, likewise...just moar convoluted, to get away with moar. Like empowerment of the CDC to declare "PANDEMIC, EVERYONE!" and force whatever quack remedy they like, on all of us.

I have the VA. I have a backup health-care provider - a Nurse-Practitioner who's good and who serves a Hutterite community 70 miles away. Anti-Jab and anti-government quack-care.

But not convenient.

Eventually I'll probably find myself in Walt's shoes...need care I can't get, because the vapid, incurious woman who the VA hired as a doctor and assigned me to, doesn't know WTF she's doing. That's already obvious.
 

Gerofit - A Program Promoting Exercise and Health for Older Veterans​

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Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.
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This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it’s likely illegal: NPR investigation revealed Trajector Medical, a company that started with a mission to help disabled vets, but that former workers say now is intent on aggressive debt collection and maximizing profits. Despite repeated written warnings from the VA that it may be breaking that law, the company continues to operate. (NPR)
 
Unca Walt said:
If I did not have a Board Certified doctor as a son (on call 24/7/365) and if I depended only on the VA...

You would not be reading this. I would have died. TWO instances. Here's one:

Had the shivers and shakes and felt like Death taking a shit. The VA gave me a card of pills to take over week. Got my son on the phone, and from Oregon (I'm in Floriduh) he properly diagnosed me with MRSA.

I would have died. As it was, it was a near-run thing in a real hospital, but my son flew in and took over my care. Fuck you VA. You are my hidden enemy just as surely as a dink in the grass.
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Rest In Peace Unca 🙏🏻
 
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I go exclusively to the VA for all my medical needs (except dentistry). I absolutely love the care they deliver. I am 10% disabled. They treat my hyper thyroid condition, type-2 diabetes and over all health. They operated on my prostate (BPH) and I pee like a 10 year old now.
I have gone to the urgent care a couple times.

I Couldn't be happier with the care.

My health is my responsibility. I stopped smoking long ago and stopped drinking and taking drugs (mood altering) 49 years ago.
I try to eat healthy, it's a battle. I stay active and get my fat a$$ on the treadmill sometimes.
 
foolsgold said:
I go exclusively to the VA for all my medical needs (except dentistry). I absolutely love the care they deliver. I am 10% disabled. They treat my hyper thyroid condition, type-2 diabetes and over all health. They operated on my prostate (BPH) and I pee like a 10 year old now.
I have gone to the urgent care a couple times.

I Couldn't be happier with the care.

My health is my responsibility. I stopped smoking long ago and stopped drinking and taking drugs (mood altering) 49 years ago.
I try to eat healthy, it's a battle. I stay active and get my fat a$$ on the treadmill sometimes.
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That's similar to my own experience...with some caveats.

I'm 20-percent disabled.

The doc I'm assigned (and of course there's no choice allowed) is a Jab-happy Face-Diaper-believing Midwit.

Give you an example...she's arguing for the Food Pyramid, dismissing Keto or other high-protein diets. Now, she's claiming that Intermittant Fasting messes up body metabolism - and that may be right; I did a lot of Intermittent Fasting and at first it worked; now I'm not getting results in spite of a GREAT drop in caloric intake.

But how do I know when she's nothing but a conduit for CDC and NIH fliers and diktats?

I at least have the basic testing for diabetes and the like, done free. Scrips are filled at cost. This, as opposed to the BammyKair cost of thousands a month PLUS pay for all this before a deductible. Or against the Kafkaesque hellscape that is Medicare...prices fixed, but no docs (or rather, no corporate hospitalist clinics) take new Medicare patients.

I'm probably going to need the prostate surgery, soon...I don't trust these quacks with knives, these days...

My conclusion? The VA is far better than the real-life alternative for me, at this time.

It's a LONG way from even being reasonably good.
 
I'm disabled too. I retired from the VA. I worked for a short time in Behavioral Health. We mostly dealt with Vets with substance abuse issues but there were some PTSD and other mental health patients. The majority of my career with the VA was in the engineering dept. I ran the Energy Plant. Ran 3 huge boilers providing steam for heating, laundry, & sterilization. And also ran 3 large chillers & other AC equipment for cooling. There was lots more involved also. The job itself wasn't so bad but the work schedule was horrendous. Glad as hell to be retired. My wife also works for the VA & hoping to retire soon.

As for my health care. It's AWESOME. I cant complain at all. They provide all of my meds via mail. Probably my biggest issue is the distance I have to go for care but that's part of the price I pay for living in a remote area. I take pretty good care of myself and the wifey helps too. I have the regular aches and pains all of us old guys have but I'm still very mobile. I even wake up most mornings with a huge boner. ;) Not bad for a 68 yr old fart
 
Vichris said:
I'm disabled too. I retired from the VA. I worked for a short time in Behavioral Health. We mostly dealt with Vets with substance abuse issues but there were some PTSD and other mental health patients. The majority of my career with the VA was in the engineering dept. I ran the Energy Plant. Ran 3 huge boilers providing steam for heating, laundry, & sterilization. And also ran 3 large chillers & other AC equipment for cooling. There was lots more involved also. The job itself wasn't so bad but the work schedule was horrendous. Glad as hell to be retired. My wife also works for the VA & hoping to retire soon.

As for my health care. It's AWESOME. I cant complain at all. They provide all of my meds via mail. Probably my biggest issue is the distance I have to go for care but that's part of the price I pay for living in a remote area. I take pretty good care of myself and the wifey helps too. I have the regular aches and pains all of us old guys have but I'm still very mobile. I even wake up most mornings with a huge boner. ;) Not bad for a 68 yr old fart
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So much depends on the area you're in - the VA hospital serving that area.

The Brecksville (greater Cleveland area) VA hospital was known as "the butcher shop." The word was, you're better off going to the county morgue than to Brecksville. I'd personally seen the malfeasance, with a friend's father, who was only given minimal custodial care after a stroke. It was so bad they took him home. Unfortunately, the father had been self-employed all his life; had never been sick, and figured he could count on the VA, as a WWII vet.

His wasn't isolated. There were criminal investigations of the gross malpractice and abuse of patients in Brecksville. It was in the papers regularly. These were the Nixon-Ford years; as a kid, I couldn't imagine anyone wanting to go to such a hospital. The economics of medical insurance weren't clear to me at that date.

Since then, I tried to get treatment at the VA in Western Wisconsin, part of whatever district the Minneapolis VA hospital serves. I was basically locked out. Illegally, as it turned out - I later found out. Got to Montana, got hurt and lost my job, medically, two years before I could claim RR Retirement benefits. I went to Sen. Tester's office, asking if the aides could inquire as to exactly why I wasn't eligible, given my service and SW Asia campaign. They got back with me in two hours - you ARE eligible, and you're even in the database! Call them up here in town...

All that was before COE-vidd, where the VA locally lost 50 percent of its staffing - they quit rather than take the Safe-And-Effective.

Prior to the Plandemic, the clinic here was very good. During, it just melted down, due to the departure of personnel. Now it's better but STILL nowhere as user-friendly as it had been.

Helps, though, that there's so many retired Federal employees, many of them veterans, in our region.
 
Very grateful for my local VA. As I mentioned before I lucked out and am at one of the good facilities. I went from 0 healthcare my entire life to the free healthcare at the VA. (I'm 70% disabled) All meds are free and delivered to my PO Box. Just go online and reorder whenever I need more. Annual eye exam and eyeglasses if needed. If there is an emergency there is a number I have to call within 72 hrs and they pick up the cost for that as well.
My 80 yr old Dad just got on VA about 3 years ago. Recently diagnosed with esophagus cancer and has to do radiation and chemo. (Looks like it worked) VA picked up the tab for all of it for him.

A few years ago I didn't even know about the VA and had a heart attack. A friend of mine worked for VA and she told me to call them and get signed up. So I did and they even picked up the cost for my stents.
Now I get a cat scan on my lungs every 6-12 months and that's in house now. Used to be I had to go to the local hospital to get it done and they paid.

I also find the VA system to be very efficient. I get my cat scan and go to the pulmonologist one hr later and they already have the results of the scan. In the real world you would be scheduled 1-2 weeks apart and they tell you they have to wait for the results.

When you have an appointment with VA I have never had to wait more than 5 or 10 minutes past my set appointment time.

Getting ready to sign up for SS. Are you required to take medicare? I'd rather just keep my VA stuff and call it a day. No need to fuss with medicare unless I am forced to.
 
Cigarlover said:
Are you required to take medicare?
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Grabbed SS at 62. When I turned 65 they automatically signed me up for medicare. Not unhappy with it. Having both VA health care and medicare has it's advantages.

Through the VA I get my meds for free, delivered to my house. and two physicals per year. If I needed it and chose it, I could get anything from them I might need. I don't care for for their locations. I'm in the middle of my primary and the Philly VA hospital.

As for medicare I'm around the corner from my primary and there is a bunch of hospitals a lot closer to me than the VA hospital. No copay for the primary, flu shots and some other stuff. Low copay for some other things.

You can opt out of medicare but it takes some doing on your part and I highly recommend against it.
 
searcher said:
Grabbed SS at 62. When I turned 65 they automatically signed me up for medicare. Not unhappy with it. Having both VA health care and medicare has it's advantages.

Through the VA I get my meds for free, delivered to my house. and two physicals per year. If I needed it and chose it, I could get anything from them I might need. I don't care for for their locations. I'm in the middle of my primary and the Philly VA hospital.

As for medicare I'm around the corner from my primary and there is a bunch of hospitals a lot closer to me than the VA hospital. No copay for the primary, flu shots and some other stuff. Low copay for some other things.

You can opt out of medicare but it takes some doing on your part and I highly recommend against it.
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I pay for medicare part B and never use it. I found this medicare insurer call the "Medicare Give back Program" (google it).

I recieve a partial refund of my medicare part B payment. It's for people like me that want Medicare part B as a back-up but don't use it.
 
foolsgold said:
I pay for medicare part B and never use it. I found this medicare insurer call the "Medicare Give back Program" (google it).

I recieve a partial refund of my medicare part B payment. It's for people like me that want Medicare part B as a back-up but don't use it.
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I was that way, too, when I became Medicare-eligible.

But in the space of a year, I was, first disqualified for VA coverage - at the time, my disability was rated at 0% and I was subject to a means-test - I fell out because of a lump sum receipt from Railroad Retirement.

This JUST BEFORE the Jab Mandates came in, and half the local VA system "retired." I should have had a waiver or a spend-down documentation; but there was no one to even contact, let-alone work it through.

And then I broke my hip. Had it not been for Medicare, I'd have been on every collections-attorney's in-box.

You just never know. Especially when your coverage becomes political. And it may well...I read on ZH that the WHO just wrapped up another simulation of global pandemic. We all know what happened after the last one....right? Now, they're even MOAR crazy for some sort of chaos that hides Epstein and their breeding farms, along with their debt and graft and Majik Money Machines and BILLIONS stolen from child-care blanket-funding programs.

Double-coverage is an asset.
 
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