lets get together?
One of the reasons some of us complain about all the wrong being done is due to that being a fact. I do not, will never, allow VA doctors to touch me whenever anything serious goes wrong. At the risk of sounding melodramatic if I had gone to VA doctors in 1997 for my cancer there is no doubt I would have been dead in 1998. I pay for private health insurance. As a retired employee of a sub-division of the state it costs $392 per month for health insurance and is worth every penny. The VA should be doing better, hope we can all agree on that. But how to fix it? Gimpy and others feel that the VA hospitals should be given more money more recourses. Paco and others feel we should be given a health insurance cards and seek our own treatment facilities. Which is the right way to go?
Why don?t all vets get together? Seems it?s because we are all such individuals. There is usually one candidate who seems more pro military than the other but pro vet, there usually isn?t much of a difference. Besides, how do vets feel about abortion, government regulations, school spending, a balanced budget, foreign affairs, church & state, the ?war on drugs?, crime? If 50 people on this site, people who have something in common, were asked to describe the perfect candidate we?d get at least 45 different answers. Perhaps the real concern is that so few members of congress and governors are vets. Thus we are just another issue like unwed mothers who might be seeking aid.
I don?t see a successful resolution to our problems. Moreover the stereotype of vets being a bunch of guys swilling beer at the local VFW can?t possibility be helping our image.
If there is a practical way of uniting a class of rugged individuals who we call vets lets hear it. Sorry, maybe I?m just being a little pessimistic tonight.
Stay healthy,
Andy
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