Elon Musk

[arewethereyet]

The progression of my symptoms when my sinuses completely fail are so routine that I was comfortable with the telehealth thing.  Though, I would have gotten better faster if she could have given me a steroid shot instead of having to take pills...which slows the process considerably.  But with COVID going on, it was the best way to go.

Sorry to hear you've got such a hard row to hoe. Do you at least have VA support for it, for what that's worth?

I have recently signed up for Medicare.  I haven't seen a doctor yet but with GoodRX my prescription refills have been quite reasonable.  

I have never attempted to use the VA as I have never felt that my relatively short service and lack of any dangerous assignments means I should leave it for those who really need it.  So far, I have not.  There are people that I feel are more deserving and I don't need to add to their wait for care.

My discharge was honorable so it's not like I can't use it should I ever need to.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I have never attempted to use the VA as I have never felt that my relatively short service and lack of any dangerous assignments means I should leave it for those who really need it.  So far, I have not.  There are people that I feel are more deserving and I don't need to add to their wait for care.

My discharge was honorable so it's not like I can't use it should I ever need to.

You deserve it as much as any other veteran. I get where you're coming from, and I use it minimally for exactly that reason -- I see our folks in the Temple hospital and my heart breaks, I don't want to waste resources better spent elsewhere -- but you earned it too.



ETA: Let's face it, @The Grand Nudger would cost more than the two of us combined in his therapy.

[Mister Agenda]

My partner relies on telehealth and it has saved me so many days off to not have to drive her for a routine visit.

[Fireball]

Sorry to hear you've got such a hard row to hoe. Do you at least have VA support for it, for what that's worth?

I have recently signed up for Medicare.  I haven't seen a doctor yet but with GoodRX my prescription refills have been quite reasonable.  

I have never attempted to use the VA as I have never felt that my relatively short service and lack of any dangerous assignments means I should leave it for those who really need it.  So far, I have not.  There are people that I feel are more deserving and I don't need to add to their wait for care.

My discharge was honorable so it's not like I can't use it should I ever need to.

I did take advantage of the GI Bill for school money, my first house, too. I used the VA for medical services twice back when I was broke. But I have really good coverage now, and like you, would rather someone with greater need get it. My friends who were in the Navy keep beating on me to go to the VA.

[The Grand Nudger]

Use it. We wait anyway.

-honestly, that's how you firewall programs like the va. Get every single person eligible on it and up to their eyeballs in bennies so that the inevitable "congressman, tell me again how many tens of thousands of veteran families in all of our districts were deprived of care by your vote/malfeasance/cowardice" writes itself.