It was hard to get to the hospital...I live 60 miles away from the VAMC. Other than the distance, I do get real good care. All of my meds and supplies are shipped to me. I had a problem once in dealing with the post office and the pharmacy switched my shipments to UPS so they could track them and I haven't had a problem since. Most issues at the VA are well handled by the Patient Advocate.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:46 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Obama's biggest frustration: inability to pass common sense gun laws in the United States Didn't you used to complain how bad it was trying to get your diabetes meds and treatment? . On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes...there are local issues in some areas with that. It's not as > widespread as fox would have people believe. The VA does have issues, > most of it is there are too many people for the system to handle. Much > like Benghazi and other issues the right likes to scream about, it's more smoke > that actual substance to the screaming. 1 VAMC covers a pretty large > territory. Not all VAMC's are horrible...many work just fine. I just > talked to my doc a couple of weeks ago and we set up an apt for the > 27th of this month. The senate just passed a bill (with 3 republicans > voting against it) that would give vets who either have to deal with > long wait times to get appointments, or live more than 40 miles out > from a VAMC, the ability to use local docs and hospitals via a > Medicare like system. I think that is a good idea as it would not > only reduce the strain on the VAMC's but also make it easier for > veterans to get to appointments and get he proper care that they need. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371003 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
