I Had to Switch to Obama's Healthcare.

[AffordableLife]

My health care premium went up to over $1,000 a month, mostly due to the mandates from Obama's insane care.

I can no longer afford the insane premiums, so I had to cancel it and activate my VA Care.

VA Care is truly an example of what is to come with Obama care.

1) Earliest blood test 3 weeks.
2) Earliest Dr's appointment 5 weeks.

This is only because I have health conditions that need continual care. IF I was healthy I would have had to wait longer.

The VA clinic was the best doctors office I have ever been to, a high class facility, probably 30-40 thousand square feet.

But the facility has only one Doctor. I was told by the lady at the front desk, that it was best not to get sick.

If I need urgent care, I need to go to the Va Hospital about 30 miles away, was told 6-8 hr wait most of the time.

So we only need to look at how the VA health care system is run, and we can see the future.

 

[Norwayguy]

My health care premium went up to over $1,000 a month, mostly due to the mandates from Obama's insane care.

I can no longer afford the insane premiums, so I had to cancel it and activate my VA Care.

VA Care is truly an example of what is to come with Obama care.

1) Earliest blood test 3 weeks.
2) Earliest Dr's appointment 5 weeks.

This is only because I have health conditions that need continual care. IF I was healthy I would have had to wait longer.

The VA clinic was the best doctors office I have ever been to, a high class facility, probably 30-40 thousand square feet.

But the facility has only one Doctor. I was told by the lady at the front desk, that it was best not to get sick.

If I need urgent care, I need to go to the Va Hospital about 30 miles away, was told 6-8 hr wait most of the time.

So we only need to look at how the VA health care system is run, and we can see the future.

What the frig was in the rest of the facility? Don't tell me its unused wasted space.

 

[tsorrels]

Are you retired military? Have you looked into TriCare? Works a lot like a medicare supplement and you can use just about any doctor that will accept the coverage.

Good luck!

 

[arnguy]

I guess you must be in the boonies, AffordableLife. Here in the Philly metropolitan area the VA clinic in Horsham, PA recently doubled in size and is run quite efficiently. I recently had an appointment and was taken in less than 5 minutes. I've had longer waits at my ptivate physician's office. Of course, here the VA hospital is only 12 miles away in the city and is affiliated the University of Pennsylvania Medical center,

 

[ijerome]

You now have a reason to pursuade voters to raise taxes, not lower them. I have had terrific health care at the VA until recently. And the same is true for one of the best hospitals in the country. There is an acute shortage of primary care physicians throughout the country and no solution planned for the future. This has nothing to do with the recent health care bill. It has been building for many years and because we all had good times and could afford private health care, Congress fell asleep and no one complained.

The system needs a complete overhaul, and because of the big money pouring into the lobbyists and special interest groups the new plan will be a disaster to implement. It has already been a disaster much before Pres. Obma but the good old days were good to us, so we swept the problems under the rug. They were not our problems. FYI, the economy may recover on the charts and in the stock market but in the real world it will be a long, long time for the good times to retrun. What to do?? As Archy Bunker said, " keep the ding bats in the kitchen, not in Congress. " And if you don't know who they are take a course called: Common Sense 101.

I am a Veteran during the tale end of Korea, not a combat vet.
I have voted for Blue and Red. And I worked in politics in the late 50s and 60s. So this is just my opinion and please respond only if you have good suggestions for turning the country around. Do not be a dingbat!!!!:

 

[AllenChicago]

My local VA is great, but its a clinic out here in the Chicago suburbs. I go every 6 months for a check-up and to have the hypertension medication renewed. It's new, clean and I never have to wait more than 10 minutes to see the same physician who has treated me since 1993.

I also have BC/BS through my wife's job. If something serious arises, I'll use the private insurance because the government physicians at the main VA hospitals aren't the best. Had a bad experience with them in the early 1980's. That might have been atypical, but once you go through it, you don't put yourself in that position again.

-AC

 

[AffordableLife]

Well it sounds like some of you have had a good experience with the VA Care System.

But I have not seen much good, my father died at a VA hospital, and my personal opinion is that he did not receive very good care. Which I won't go into here.

Anyone that thinks raising taxes will solve the problems of government run health care, or this country is a dingbat.

 

[HomeService]

You now have a reason to pursuade voters to raise taxes, not lower them. I have had terrific health care at the VA until recently. And the same is true for one of the best hospitals in the country. There is an acute shortage of primary care physicians throughout the country and no solution planned for the future. This has nothing to do with the recent health care bill. It has been building for many years and because we all had good times and could afford private health care, Congress fell asleep and no one complained.

The system needs a complete overhaul, and because of the big money pouring into the lobbyists and special interest groups the new plan will be a disaster to implement. It has already been a disaster much before Pres. Obma but the good old days were good to us, so we swept the problems under the rug. They were not our problems. FYI, the economy may recover on the charts and in the stock market but in the real world it will be a long, long time for the good times to retrun. What to do?? As Archy Bunker said, " keep the ding bats in the kitchen, not in Congress. " And if you don't know who they are take a course called: Common Sense 101.

I am a Veteran during the tale end of Korea, not a combat vet.
I have voted for Blue and Red. And I worked in politics in the late 50s and 60s. So this is just my opinion and please respond only if you have good suggestions for turning the country around. Do not be a dingbat!!!!:

Great post. I would point out that the Libertarians may be the answer- but the problem is: they do not exactly kick butt nationwide, when it comes to winning massive amounts of elections. I guess that may change, eventually.

 

[ksigmtsu]

The VA hospital here in Murfreesboro TN recently gave 13 people HIV because they failed to clean the scope for the colonoscopy machine.

Government service at it's finest. I could make a really off color joke here, but it's so repugnant that even I have to hold myself back.

 

[VolAgent]

The VA hospital here in Murfreesboro TN recently gave 13 people HIV because they failed to clean the scope for the colonoscopy machine.

Government service at it's finest. I could make a really off color joke here, but it's so repugnant that even I have to hold myself back.

Good grief, there are some jokes just begging to be told based off of that, but I just can't bring myself to tell it at the expense of the vets.

It gives don't ask, don't tell a whole new meaning.