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Congress Nears Passage of Historic Bipartisan Veterans Bill Offering Sweeping Support Services​

In a significant bipartisan effort to address the multifaceted needs of America’s veterans, Congress is advancing a comprehensive legislative package known as the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act. Set to reform numerous aspects of veterans’ services, including the Department of Veterans Affairs caregiver program, support for veteran homelessness, and the VA’s electronic health records system, the bill reflects a collaborative negotiation between key congressional figures.

House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the top Republican on the Senate committee, have unveiled the agreement which is expected to move through Congress this summer. This breakthrough comes after overcoming financial hurdles regarding offsets for the bills’ costs. The package is fully offset, as touted by the negotiators, releasing a series of legislative efforts previously stalled.

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searcher said:
taskandpurpose.com

A push to cut veterans disability benefits is gaining traction, experts warn

Many Americans don’t understand how difficult it is for veterans to prove that their health conditions stem from their military service.
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Eventually, the Elites...the Globalists who wish us dead...will come to realize, a promise broken, has costs.

Maybe not in law. But in credibility. In legitimacy.

FAR cheaper to just honor the pledge, and exclude newcoming vets, and let time do what it will. To repudiate these pledges...will lead to a French-Revolution-style outrage, the kind of which Kaiser Klaus and Billy Gates...are not prepared for.
 
National Health Care is how other nations take care of their veterans, that way they don't need to play silly games over what is covered and what isn't...
 

Watchdog rebukes VA over failure to refund $110M in medical fees​

A federal watchdog on Wednesday criticized Veterans Affairs leaders for failing to refund millions of dollars in canceled medical co-pay charges to veterans, despite knowing about the problem for years.

The reprimand from the Office of Special Counsel, or OSC, comes after a whistleblower report that department administrators had "no agency policies, procedures, or plans" to get the backlog of repayments addressed despite being aware of the problem.

In messages to OSC, VA officials acknowledged conducting a recent review into the problem and blamed it on staffing issues. They pledged to "stay current with refund requests and work the backlog as time allows."

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Getting re-instated with the VA system here...I found out, on a current bill that listed account history from the previous payment...five years ago...that I had made an overpayment of $30.

ZERO effort went into refunding the payment or notifying me. They went dark, from the time of the Jab Mandates until I went down and pushed the issue and got re-enrolled.

Here, they lost over 50 percent of their staff...many took early retirement. After I was given notice I had 100-percent copayment, after a lump-sum of back payment from Railroad Retirement...I went down to discuss my eligibility with an intake worker - there were none.

I signed in and waited FIVE HOURS. No one even checked the sign-in board. That's how bad it was as Diaperman's puppetmasters were taking over.

That's partially reversed now, but the billing office apparently still gives Zorro Fox.
 
Casey Jones said:
Getting re-instated with the VA system here...I found out, on a current bill that listed account history from the previous payment...five years ago...that I had made an overpayment of $30.

ZERO effort went into refunding the payment or notifying me. They went dark, from the time of the Jab Mandates until I went down and pushed the issue and got re-enrolled.

Here, they lost over 50 percent of their staff...many took early retirement. After I was given notice I had 100-percent copayment, after a lump-sum of back payment from Railroad Retirement...I went down to discuss my eligibility with an intake worker - there were none.

I signed in and waited FIVE HOURS. No one even checked the sign-in board. That's how bad it was as Diaperman's puppetmasters were taking over.

That's partially reversed now, but the billing office apparently still gives Zorro Fox.
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CJ -- Send a REGISTERED letter to the Lord High Pancho of the VA with all the above in it. Carbon copy your Senator.

Yeah, that will take an hour or more of sorta real effort. So do it. They can't shoot you -- that's against the law. The burr under the saddle, the pebble in the shoe, the dust speck in your eye... all little bitty things that get total attention from big things.

(*snork*) I have found that as I enter the Sprintime of my senility, my trigger has a much lighter pull.
 
I don't know what will eventually happen with the VA, but I wouldn't mind being able to use my VA ID card in private practice health care offices, clinics, hospitals, etc. It's a good ride for me to get to my VA primary doc's office and a good ride for me to get to the VA hospital in Philly. My regular primary is a 5-to-8-minute ride from my house and there are a bunch on hospitals near me that are an easy ride to get to. It seems to me that would be the way to go. jm2c

Latest purge at VA hits medical center support staff: ‘Definitely going to hinder care’​


The Department of Veterans Affairs axed another 1,400 workers this week with medical support staff dismissed with little to no warning or consultation with their supervisors at top VA care facilities.

The debate over which employees are considered “non-mission critical” continues after the total number of dismissals in the department has now grown to about 2,400 under the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce following previous cuts on Feb. 13.

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Medical care at my VA has been pretty good. They actually listen to what I have to say and if I dont want to take a med they try and work with me. Statins being a good example. Never really cared for them but they just don't Agree with me at all. They really make me feel like shit so I just stopped taking them and told the Dr's to never try and put me on them again. They complied.
We have tried to figure out my insomnia issue but no luck so far. I even requested a testosterone test to check my levels. All normal.

The my healthy vet site works pretty well too. I just message my Dr or team and within 30 minutes I usually get a phone call to address whatever I need.
I have an appointment today so will see if there have been any changes.
 
Casey Jones said:
Getting re-instated with the VA system here...I found out, on a current bill that listed account history from the previous payment...five years ago...that I had made an overpayment of $30.

ZERO effort went into refunding the payment or notifying me. They went dark, from the time of the Jab Mandates until I went down and pushed the issue and got re-enrolled.

Here, they lost over 50 percent of their staff...many took early retirement. After I was given notice I had 100-percent copayment, after a lump-sum of back payment from Railroad Retirement...I went down to discuss my eligibility with an intake worker - there were none.

I signed in and waited FIVE HOURS. No one even checked the sign-in board. That's how bad it was as Diaperman's puppetmasters were taking over.

That's partially reversed now, but the billing office apparently still gives Zorro Fox.
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Update. Latest VA Follies: During my (re)Intake Physical, the alleged physician discussed a blood-blister on my foot, been there a couple of weeks. Because I'm diabetic, the decision was made to refer me to a podiatrist in town, since they have none in the clinic. I was to be contacted.

Okay, fine. That was, first week of December. No one contacted me. About the time I was gonna use my Medicrap insurance to see someone, the blister cleared. Okay, good. Now I know I can't count on the VA the way I could in 2017-19, when they were pretty good.

Yesterday, out of the blue, I get a call. From a podiatrist's office. To set up an appointment. Almost three months after I was to be referred.

The clerk told me the referral had just come in. I believe it; but it's a hell of a way to run the railroad.
 
Yea there is definitely a difference in quality at all the VA locations. I lucked out and got a good one. Talking with the staff there today they let 7 people go and they were all just hired within the last few months and non medical team personnel.

I think the VA here has everything in house now. It's 30 or 31 buildings. Pool, gym. Pretty much everything.
 
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