Free health care ... worth every penny you pay.
I was going to say... I've been to free-clinics.... and yeah it's free, so I get it that if you need free care, by all means. It's good enough for the price.
But it's not 'good' care. I've been to a private clinic, and to the free one. It's night and day. The free ones are terrible. Just absolutely terrible.
You go to the free ones, if you have no choice.
GARBAGE. The VA is free to veterans and the care is excellent. You are lying
I would disagree with you.
The care I get at the VA is much better than what I got at Kaiser. I have been in the VA hospital in San Diego 4 times in the last 2 years and the care was excellent.
VA care is largely terrible. My brother-in-law, came back from Iraq. He was hit by an IED, and needed surgery on his hand. He waited for almost a year, in pain, because of how bad VA care is.
He finally said screw it, and paid a private doctor for care. He met with the doctor, setup the appointment for surgery, and had the surgery done..... in one week. ONE week.
One year on VA.... one week private doctor.
Dawn Brys got an early taste of the crisis unfolding at the largest Veterans Affairs hospital in the Southeast.
The Air Force vet said she went to the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur last year for surgery on a broken foot. But the doctor called it off because the surgical instruments hadn't been properly sterilized.
"The tools had condensation on them," recalled Brys, a 50-year-old Marietta resident. The doctor rescheduled it for the next day.
Now the 400-plus-bed hospital on Clairmont Road that serves about 120,000 military veterans is in a state of emergency. It suspended routine surgeries in late September after a string of incidents that exposed mismanagement and dangerous practices. It hopes to resume normal operations by early November as it struggles to retrain staff and hire new nurses.
The partial shutdown came about two weeks after Joel Marrable, a cancer patient in the same VA complex, was found covered with more than 100 ant bites by his daughter. Also in September, the hospital's canteen was temporarily closed for a pest investigation.
A reckoning at VA Atlanta hospital after years of problems
The VA is absolutely horrific.
Nearly 100 patients died waiting for care from Los Angeles VA
Private hospitals do not do this. Dead customers don't pay bills. But the VA.... you are not a customer. If you die, no one loses a penny. In fact, just one less problem to deal with.
