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Our VeteransVeterans enrolled in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care programs have long complained of receiving inadequate treatment at poorly funded facilities. According to a 2003 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, veterans were forced to travel long distances to receive care — about 25 percent of the vets lived more than a 60-minute drive from a VA hospital. They also had to endure long waits for appointments,
LOL! I have a 2 1/2 hour drive for care, while some vets have around 4 hour drives, but that didn't start under Obama, that goes back to Bush gutting & closing bases. I am currently working to get my medical care locally from private physicians, which the VA does do. I have had the VA since the late sixties, and I don't know of any veteran complaining about the medical care, outside of that one VA hospital for returning vets, run by a private corporation. The care is excellent. I would say a US citizen would have to pay $50,000. a year premiums to get the equivalent medical care I get for free. There is no medical system available that is better, even for presidents or billionaires, so I am shocked that I hear that. I get my appointments within a couple of weeks, and if it is an emergency of some kind I can go right in, or go to any local hospital. I get complete read-outs of all treatments & blood work, and do some testing here at home, and it is all free. If I would ever need inhome care I can get it, or revamp a home or car for my use, and even rest homes. I was looking at one rest home in Napa Valley, very nice and complete medical care, plus they will bury me eventually. What medical provider can offer you that?
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