Has the VA been reformed yet? Does sound like it has...
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Doug Collins is doing a good job and doing what he can, but realize the VA is the largest part of the DOD budget. Lots of unions, laundering, deeply embedded operatives. I can tell you for 100% certainly that the VA IS the Resistance® They resist Doug at every avenue. They still haven't taken down all of their LGBT stuff from their website despite the DOD directive AND Doug personally instructions to do so several times that I know of.
I am in a back and forth with his personal assistant right now about this very thing.
Doug has great plans and a great outlook, but the VA is an intentionally convoluted Leviathan with intentional traps, pitfalls and hang-ups the entire way
Because I got so pissed off, I vibe coded an entire counter-VA website called Veterans Command Console vcc(dot)vet that helps smooth other veterans' arduous journey through the system.
Doug is the only VA Director in recent memory who is actually trying to clean it up. Everyone else was just a gate keeper until he came along.
I am getting great care and the nurses and docs are good to me-TBS, I had to fire one doc for being a dick-my present doc is human! Being 80 and subject to 90% disability, I am in the right place.
That's excellent! What VA is that?
Denver VA hospital.. The building was a scandle, the staff is great!!
I used to go to Denver VA back in the early to mid 2000s. They used to my favorite hospital, civilian or military. They had great staff, they were the model for efficiency. They were at one point the most efficient hospital in the U.S. Then came Obama.......
Denver and Ann Arbor are (were) great...... I've been having to deal with Atlanta VA for the past decade. Stark difference. Bad news. Don't expect to get better when you walk in those doors.
I hit 60% disability in January and was immediately dropped by 0bamacare (I was unemployed), and had to go to the VA. That's ok with me, but the VA won't do anything for you until you have been "vested" into your local clinic/hospital. In my case they told me it would take up to 3 months before I could see a doctor since they are so short. Well - what was I supposed to do in the mean time with no insurance. I have meds I require.
I saw a tweet from VARapidResponse on the good stuff Doug was doing so I responded with info on what I was going through - and figured it would go nowhere. They responded that day, set me up with the North Texas VA HQ, who called me and wanted to find out what was going on. I got an appointment the next week. I told the guy about the wait time, my needs, and asked him why the hell I couldn't go to a local doctor until I got into the VA. He said you can't see community care, or go to urgent care/ER until you're vested. I'm hoping that gets fixed - or they get more doctors/PAs/NPs. It's funny - when I got to 60% the benefits page didn't say I had to wait to be vested - it said I get full VA healthcare. I even get dental because of service-connected issues (which of course they are sending me to community care because we have one dentist at my clinic).
I will say I told the VA and Obamacare I would NOT drop them until I vested in the VA, and that technically until that happened I didn't have healthcare. They had no choice but to agree. I bet that gets fixed too, since Obamacare will probably bill the VA (kek).
I'm really liking the RapidResponse accounts - they actually respond!