Posted by
Freemanredneck on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I have been a patient at the Veterans Hospitals for over thirty years since I am a permanent and total disabled Vietnam Veteran. I am so messed up that I cannot get medical insurance as I am a very poor risk, especially since I was also mixing Agent Orange and developed cancer at the age of 38 years old but lived presently to the ripe old age of 57. I have seen horrors in veterans hospitals much worst than the fields of combat. I have seen men who could not feed themselves just have their food sitting by their bedside with no one to help out the patient or letting a former soldier just lay in his own urination because the staff was to damn lazy to change the sheets. How about AID's contamination from unclean equipment or over or under exposed radiation treatments because of faulty equipment. I have seen the VA Medical hire doctors who lost patients in the private sector due to negligence, but the VA will hire them.
I have seen veterans come into the waiting rooms of veterans hospitals and just drop dead from stress dealing with veterans hospital employees' and I have to wait thirty days or more for an appointment. If I have to have my eyes checked then I have to travel eight hours round trip to a veterans hospital. If I need surgery then I have to travel sixteen hours round trip. If I need just a check-up I have to travel three hours round trip. I will tell you that private medical hospital is twenty minutes away from my home, but getting fee basis is like pulling my own teeth.
If Congress and the President are so set on have a national health care system then first do the honorable thing and let Congress and the President be treated under the Veteran's health care without special treatment. Let Congress put their actions where their mouth is, but we all know they will not give up their own tax-payer funded medical care. They are gutless coward who look at the American people and say: "do as I say, not as I do, as we know what best".
YOU WANT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE? GO VISIT AND VETERANS HOSPITAL IN LARGE MAJOR CITIES!