The VA has around an 85% satisfaction rating, one of the highest in the nation for health care systems.
I love my VA treatment and my Muslim woman primary care physician has saved my life. I can actually get my surgeon on the phone and my treatment is more aggressive and timely than my "Cadillac" plan ever was before the Bush economy blew my personal economy out. Thank G*d for my socialistic health care - the VA! I do not want to part of any profit driven system, especially Ohio's Blue Cross/Blue Shield. which I have had the honor of over paying for and being under served by.
Ilsa, its a shame non veterans can't get an honest look at the really good job it does for 90% of us. And the sad truth is civilian health care systems are significantly worse at dealing with those brothers and sisters who aren't able to deal with what it takes to make the VA work so well. There are a lot better facilities dealing with mental health, agent orange issues, PTSD, homelessness in VA than there is in the real world. VA and veteran groups provide all sorts of programs to get vets to treatment and even pays me mileage for the 100 or so miles I drive to Temple and the 60 or so I drive to Austin for primary care.
Va follows up on me regularly and I am supremely satisfied with it.
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