VA Benefits Delayed for 34,000 Combat Vets

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"A whistleblower has accused the Department of Veterans Affairs of intentionally violating its own policy toward combat veterans to keep thousands of applicants from receiving their healthcare benefits.

Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA enrollment center in Atlanta, said some veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan lost their eligibility for healthcare after the VA sat on their applications until they expired.

"This is not an accident, not when you get to those numbers," Davis told the Washington Examiner. "The VA, again, intentionally has artificial barriers to reduce the number of people who can use the system."

Combat veterans are not required to verify their income when applying for VA benefits. They are given five years from the time of their discharge from service to enroll in the system."


www.washingtonexaminer.com/34000-combat-veterans-still-waiting-for-va-benefits/article/2568641

[Sailor]

WTF is it with these people? I have an idea, disband the VA and allow other veterans to do what I do ... use civilian doctors, hospitals and therapists. Most of what they need is already covered under TRICARE and the TRICARE rules can be adapted to cover copays and other expenses. TRICARE Standard already has a $3,000 yearly cap on copays and such. I hit that cap quickly for the first 4 years of my treatment and the only issues I had were when the hospital "miscoded" a couple of my forms making it appear I got hit by a bus or some such foolishness. 2 phone calls and a letter got that straightened out quickly.

I firmly believe I am still alive and active because I didn't depend on the F'ing VA for my cancer treatment. I'd likely either be permanently disabled or dead.

Reading stories like this one really piss me off.

Gotta run, off to work.