The VA: Broke While Swimming in Cash

SO TRUE !!!

LadyVeteran23 ,
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...In Boise the buildings are old and elegant... but sound and well maintained.  The whole layout outside has the look of an old campus.  There are a handful of "portables...."  around the margins.  Money has not been lavished on being "modern looking or spiffy..."  Clean and well run.
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...Sad... a relatively few places that are being run the way that the entire lash-up should be.

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-YP-

I could rant for days
about my experience with VA healthcare, getting pre-approved & authorized for non-va care/surgery and having to fight off collections because the VA took 2 years to pay the bill. if I go into much else I'll end up smashing my keyboard so I gotta chill lol. 

Its not that the actual
care sucks, it doesn’t. The docs are good. but damnnnn...why are so many of them not American? Anyways.... WTF is going on with all the $ they keep blowing on non-essential bullshit. My VA has been getting a "facelift" for the last 4 years. Millions of dollars (over 200 projects). Its like putting lipstick on a pig. The building is falling apart, but the outside entrance is looking fancy. Not even kidding you, the sides of Hines VA has started to collapse. Pipes leak and ew the cockroach boxes in the hallway *gags*. Then there's the fitness center that was being built for veterans & employees... but the pricks opened it up as an employees only fitness center. ahhhhh and those digital/electric fucking garbage cans... what the fucking fuck are those?

Nothing is going to change as long as VA exists first and foremost to provide cushy union and civil service jobs for affirmative action functional illiterates who have (in complete violation of regulation) Hussein the AntiChrist shrines in their cubes.  You have RNs from Caribbean backwaters that can barely speak English.

Fire Shinseki?  He was Ronald Reagan compared to the ass clown REMF HCFIC we have now.

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...I am very fortunate that the Boise V.A. medical facility is far better than the average in the country.  I hear that Seattle's facility is massively overworked with far too many vets... Heard some horror stories about a few back East.  
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...Boise facility is clean, rational and unfailingly courteous.  For various reasons, from luck to oversight we have advantages that some facilities don't.  
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...Unlike some states, Idaho has a higher than average % of veterans.  The Governor and the state Congressional delegation have a sincere interest in monitoring the quality of care.  Public awareness and involvement higher than in many places.   No nepotism issues... and a significant % of the staff made up of veterans.  
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...Routine exams scheduled to be within 3-4 weeks.  If you have something that needs seen sooner, you walk in the door, sign a sheet... and depending on the complaint, will be seen within an hour or less... anything more pressing and the Emergency facility is open 24-7 (unlike at some VA facilities...)  
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...A few years ago I had some paperwork difficulties with the National office.  They thought that I was not eligible for some care that I clearly was... They threatened to grab my Social Security.  Phone calls not returned and two massive letters with mass documentation attached to appropriate addresses not replied to... ever... to this day... 
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...After a few months of this I contacted local office.  Even though not their responsibility, they "tilted at the windmills" and got the freakin' bureaucrats off my six.   I am fully aware just how lucky I am to live within a twenty minute drive of this facility.
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-YP-