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In reply to the discussion: Here I am in a new city, embarking on trying to find an Obamacare doctor. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)One guy needed surgery on his leg. He lived in Dallas...big city, with at least five large medical complexes with hospitals, not counting those in the burbs. He had to go hundreds of miles away out of town to get surgery thru the VA, so had to find someone to drive him there. It's horrible.
Your experience sounds similar to mine. I think it's probably not the fault of the providers. We can't expect them to work for free, or wait months to get paid, and then get paid next to nothing.
So I sympathize with your plight. I think a person has to go through it to really understand. So when someone speaks about such problems related to other programs, I can totally empathize, because I know exactly what they're talking about.
Hopefully the vet care is getting better, since I think someone new was named to get that in shape, as I recall? The vets have many with serious conditions....we can do better for them than what they had.
Is insurance involved in the VA Choice program? I think insurance profits are part of the problem.