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They could do it with zero deductible, zero out of pocket and still save money. Just send the two trillion to Kaiser and tell them to cover vets. They will figure it out.I guess I am ignorant to this but why even have a VA at all? Why not just give all veterans a standard PPO with a wide network, covering all premiums with a very low deductible/max out-of-pocket so they can see any doctor they please? With a 2 trillion dollar budget, the money is most definitely there to do so.
Reading what you guys have described above pisses me off a bit. For as cavalier as our country is about never-ending war, the people actually fighting are getting the shaft and that's bullshit.
Because as is with all government administered healthcare the government doesn't want to pay.I guess I am ignorant to this but why even have a VA at all? Why not just give all veterans a standard PPO with a wide network, covering all premiums with a very low deductible/max out-of-pocket so they can see any doctor they please? With a 2 trillion dollar budget, the money is most definitely there to do so.
Have heard plenty of complaints here that doctors make too much money. lol.The doctors are either 100 years old or horrible, but what kind of person goes to medical school to earn 120k per year as a VA doctor.
I have the same problem. I have ringing in my ears and have suffered a noticeable difference in my hearing from my early 20s. My guess is its from working and flying in military aircraft for years. I'm still in the military and every time I take a hearing test they say that I'm fine.My father had a lot of hearing loss from working on the flight deck during Vietnam
Combined with presbycusis he is now practically deaf - he will not hear an alarm going off next to him if he's sleeping.
He has probably needed hearing aids since his late 30s - could not get them until his 50s.
It was always the same story until he often couldn't hear the phone ring: "Your hearing tests fine."
I have friend in his late 30s going through the exact same thing right now with the VA
Noise induced hearing loss from combat.
Like my father was, the hearing loss is readily apparent within a few interactions
He went to get checked
"Well they told me my hearing tests fine."
And then you wonder why people in this country get turned off to socialized Medicine.
I have the same problem but mine is from engines, I drive everyone nuts because I need the volume turned up just to hear anything and yet the quacks keep telling me I'm fine. Never mind the fact that it takes about 45 days to even be seen by a doc, ugh now I'm all fired up at work! I can't wait to have it be even worse when I get out in a few years.I have the same problem. I have ringing in my ears and have suffered a noticeable difference in my hearing from my early 20s. My guess is its from working and flying in military aircraft for years. I'm still in the military and every time I take a hearing test they say that I'm fine.
Why have a VA? So bureaucrats can skim money and give family and friends cushy jobs.I guess I am ignorant to this but why even have a VA at all? Why not just give all veterans a standard PPO with a wide network, covering all premiums with a very low deductible/max out-of-pocket so they can see any doctor they please? With a 2 trillion dollar budget, the money is most definitely there to do so.
Reading what you guys have described above pisses me off a bit. For as cavalier as our country is about never-ending war, the people actually fighting are getting the shaft and that's bullshit.
YOu'll wanna look up Barking Sands on Kauai, I've stayed there 2x's with my dad, retired AF. The beach cottages are nice and there's plenty spots to surf out front. Prices around 125 for a 2bd cottage.Mugu security is notorious for harassing people surfing. The new law gives service connected disabled vets MWR access so the cottages at San Onofre, Barbers Point, and of course the beach at Mugu should be open.
I was a military dependent until I was 23 and had an ID. While going to college in LA, I would surf Mugu whenever the conditions would lineup and I could make the drive up. I would get hassled so hard (being a brown kid) eventhough I had a legit ID and could surf/be on base whenever I wanted. Most hassled I've ever been on any base was surfing Mugu. Like someone said above, they go car to car. Sometimes they'd loop back and double check the brown kid lol.
Scored some foggy weekdays either by myself or with less than 10 people total, spread out.
Tiger sharks come free with that package?YOu'll wanna look up Barking Sands on Kauai, I've stayed there 2x's with my dad, retired AF. The beach cottages are nice and there's plenty spots to surf out front. Prices around 125 for a 2bd cottage.
Yea, sketchy. No thanks.Tiger sharks come free with that package?
Bonus, there's nothing around for miles so good luck getting medical attention.Tiger sharks come free with that package?