(March 12, 2016 at 7:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(March 12, 2016 at 6:23 pm)abaris Wrote: Viewed from the outside, it certainly seems that way. As long as they can serve as cannon fodder or for some patriotic surge, it's support the troops. But when they end up in the gutter after returning home, noone gives a shit. I've heard that the number of uninsured, untreated and even homeless veterans is supposed to be pretty high.
Exactly. Due to my necrotic hip, I was being treated at Ground Zero for the VA scandal, the hospital at Temple, Texas. I was surprised to find that I would have to wait two months to determine if I had pelvic necrosis or bone cancer.
Two fucking months to find out if it's cancer, that might as well be an eternity. And no one bothered to explain the need for the wait.
Mine isn't combat related, so I didn't raise a fuss ... but when I learnt of the record-falsifying, I began to think, and still do, that someone jimmied my records to hide such a senseless delay.
That's why people need Obamacare. Too bad you didn't have a policy.
