A Life Aloft
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The entire system from the ground up would have to be studied/re-structured and changed/improved. I haven't even seen the start of that. The system at this point, might be too broken and too far gone to help anyone. Perhaps a private system needs to be at least considered/looked at. If the VA is an example of what a government run medical insurance plan would be like, good luck with that.As a VA "patient", I have found the entire system so tied up in bureaucracy that I have chosen to just not even use it.
I have been waiting/working a year just to get someone to look at the fact that I am unable to create an online application for benefits. The e-Benefits website flags the problem, tells me to call a 1-800 number for service. I have waited hour upon hour on the phone, left messages that have never been returned, finally got fed up and drove to visit more than one VA benefits and medical center and was told they couldn't help me, etc, and I can't find a single person who can actually help me. This is just to take step 1 in the process. A year, and I am no closer today than I was in May 2015 when I initially attempted to file for VA medical benefits.
Thank God I'm not actually in need of substantial medical attention; if I were, I'd probably be dead by now.
Government-run health care.
Those of you who think it is the answer to our nation's health care crisis have obviously never had to use it.
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