Random Thoughts

[kuronosan]

spoken like someone who's never had to use it

Spoken like someone who literally has treated people in one.

[archibaldcrane]

not sure that's how "spoken like someone" works but go off

[kuronosan]

not sure that's how "spoken like someone" works but go off

Spoken like someone who knows how spoken like someone works

[archibaldcrane]

correct

[Andalusian girls]

Spoken like someone who literally has treated people in one.

the evidence against VA competence accumulates

[Koyangi]

Janitors treating VA patients is definitely not competent, so this checks out.

[kuronosan]

K

[Day]

mf see something remotely involving healthcare and just has to chime in

[kuronosan]

mf see something remotely involving healthcare and just has to chime in

Almost like I have relevant knowledge to the topic and all of BG must harp on anecdotal knowledge while using anecdotal knowledge to make an argument.

But look, tables! Data! Statistics!

Seriously. Go look it up. I'm not doing your work for you this time.

[Day]

yeah man a shrinks anecdotal evidence that the VA varies wildly, great input we all needed dude

[Day]

you have never done any work for me btw lol

[Milkster]

A poll on why veterans don't care for the care provided by the VA

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...care-provider/

[Milkster]

The VA denies more claims than ever of Veterans

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...8b6_story.html

[Milkster]

Veterans talking about their poor experiences with the VA and the bureaucracy. Dozens and hundreds more threads to be found.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Veterans/co...s_incompetent/

[synistar]

My mom enrolled my dad in Medicare once he was eligible. I suspect the VA didn't want to do cataract surgery to fix my dad's eyes.

[Day]

welp i did my own research turns out the VA sucks dick

[Rhyis.]

that seems to be the consensus

[kuronosan]

Veterans talking about their poor experiences with the VA and the bureaucracy. Dozens and hundreds more threads to be found.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Veterans/co...s_incompetent/

First tables: "This statistic shows the percentage of U.S. veteran and active service respondents who have never used VA health care services for select reasons"

Oh yes. Checks out.

Second article:

"After a series of unauthorized absences by Rios, the Navy gave him an “other than honorable” (OTH) discharge six months shy of his end of active obligated service."

Ah, of course. It's the VA's fault he was discharged other than honorably and that definitely causes suboptimal care.

Third:

"Army Veteran with severe PTSD here, and I have to credit the West Haven, Connecticut VAMC with saving my life.

I have been going to them for almost three years now, since I was first diagnosed. They enrolled me for participation in one of the most remarkable places on Earth, in my humble opinion, the Errera Community Care Center, a one of a kind VA facility.

At every step in my recovery process, I have been treated with compassion, dignity, and competence. It does drive the staff there a little buggy, though, that this wonderful, and highly effective model has not been adopted by the rest of the VA. The Errera center has a major-league partner, too- The Yale School of Medicine."

Almost like it... Varies wildly.

You people really are a special fucking group sometimes. Milkster doesn't read his posts, Day thinks I care what he thinks, and y'all argue into the darkness constantly without actually listening.

Nothing you say bothers me. I literally come here for the information and to share shit once in a while. Whether you think I'm competent or a janitor or both has less than zero effect on my day.

[Day]

sir this is a burger king

[Day]

we can tell nothing we say bothers you or impacts your day buddy, thats super clear