On Jul 27, 2012, at 16:34 , John Sessoms wrote: > From: "Bob W" > >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> John Sessoms >>> >>> I hoped to make a trip there this fall, end of September. That's off >>> now. >>> >>> Kitchen is still not finished. I'm going to have to repair/replace my >>> roof where a tree limb hit it. >>> >>> And now, I've broken a tooth. >>> >> >> A roof and a toof - that's bad. Sorry you won't be able to get here. >> >>> Got an appointment on Monday. Meantime I've got some stuff I got from >>> Walgreens packed in there. I don't have dental insurance, and the VA >>> won't do anything except pull it out, so I'm going to be out of pocket >>> & I don't think it's going to be cheap. >>> >> >> Every time I hear stories like this it makes me double-plus extra glad with >> knobs on and sparkly bits that I live in a country that has a national >> health service. >> >> B > > When I had served 20 years in the National Guard in 1995, I earned 100% free > medical & dental care from the VA to be provided once I reached age 60 and > became eligible to receive retired pay. I served a total of 32 years. > > The Bush administration reneged in 2004 while I was in Iraq and took away the > benefits I had already vested a decade earlier.
Which was part of the beginning of the shift from the worker to Wall Street, the start of the depression we all live in, on every continent. Today's news reported that the largest banks are "still" the most profitable entities in the world, now that they have absorbed tons of money from "us" that allowed them to absorb the medium and small sized banks to further the large banks profits. "Too big to fail". I've been under the meager care of the VA for the past 15 years. No dental. No follow through. My care is up to me remembering who I'm supposed to make an appointment with, and how often. They are so organized that the San Francisco VA sent me a card to make an appointment for a colonoscopy soon. Would be the only thing they would remind me of. Oh, yes, I've been in the Seattle area for more than 4 years now. Been going to the Seattle and the Mount Vernon VAs. No one told San Francisco. Drugs. I take my share. But they are in no way the best kind, some not even the right kind. The VA "formulary" only includes generic drugs that are no longer in patent from the designers. I have Medicare, but using it would triple my medical expenses. Fortunately, my health is good, other than arthritis pain. That pain I have to buy my own drugs for. :-) Try, just try, to talk a VA doctor into prescribing "medical marijuana" to help with the pain, and anxiety. Hah! Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
