Thank you for your kind words. I keep telling myself that at some point in the future my services will be required when this current system collapses and we can return to patient centered care focused on health instead of the behemoth Rockefeller big pharma insurance business model of disease maintenance we currently have. I have no doubt that other medical systems around the world are built using the same heartless model. Our medical systems in general, whether public or private, are designed to promote illness because they make money - whether that gain is translated into pure profit or, as in the case of government provided care, jobs. It always boils down to the money doesn't it.

Like many of the agencies of the Federal government, those bureaucracies only exist for themselves and whatever their original purpose in noble and worthy cause eventually becomes only an appearance of utility quagmired and squashed under its own weight. The very people these same agencies claim to serve and help often become victims of the system. Yes, I had vets that were suicidal not because of their war related disabilities, but often because of the battles they fought every day with the VA medical system. It was as if the system itself was designed to be so discouraging and difficult that the patient would just give up and possibly die before the government would provide the services that were promised. My years there left me wondering what their purpose really was other than to supply government workers with employment and pensions. The patients basically were only a means to an end and an excuse to claim a paycheck.

There are many vets that do receive decent care - but there are many that do not. Our vets earned certain obligations provided by the governments that they served - one being health care for the injuries they sustained serving their countries. It is shameful and unacceptable that they must continue fighting on the battlefield only with their own governments instead of on some distant land or sea.