MyVA Advisory Committee meets in Tampa, Florida at new primary care annex

All these meetings and town halls are “Photo Ops”. No one care about us or our issues. It is all about looking good and improving the image. Mr. McDonald has done little to fix the problems left by his murderous predecessor. Mr. McDonald’s hand have as much blood on them as do the former secretary and the president for lack of caring, lack of trying, and misplace loyalty. Instead of putting the Veterans as top priority along with the elderly and sick, they have been to worried about being politically correct with the welfare community, the illegal community and finally the helping of ISIS radicals before helping our Vets. The old multiple waiting list may be gone (as it was), but who knows what has now replaced it. The upper echelon that was to be fired and other wise punished is still there. St. Pete (Bay Pines) has been bragging about how they have suckered 400K veterans into their new study meant to hurt veteran’s benefits rather than improve them. They are searching for how to connect as many presently considered service connected health issues to the veterans health issues to heredity or genes or life style so that they can have an easier time stripping away veteran’s percentages on their service connected rating.
The whole system in bottom dollar centered. The VA administration works hand in hand with the section of the section of the VA that deals with the monies paid in compensation. They look for ways to not have to dole out extra to a veteran, yet the same government give what we earned to illegal aliens and 10s of thousands of refugees that they want to have in vade us. They get better benefits than we do. We do not get free food, free welfare checks, free housing free medical care for our families unless we are 100% rated (and we all know how difficult that process is to get the 100%.) and recently they have been reducing our ratings. Many veterans whom I personally know have lost 10-40 % of their rating. those of us still working on getting the 100$ have been waiting years, jumping through hoop after hoop in a seemingly endless circle of hoops. W e all know that the reason for the the endless hoop jumping exercise is to see if the VA big dogs can finally get us to give up on the process–therefore saving the VA millions of dollars in order to try to qualify for their bonus or to justify their job. That’s why a person who sees us for 15 minutes once in our lives has more say about whether or not we as disabled than our treating physicians (both VA Doctors and Outside doctors–many of whom are specialist), and the person actually rating us who may or may not be a doctor at all knows better than our treating Physicians, shrinks, cardiologist all of whom have been treating us for years. It is a gimmick. Most of my stress related issues that I am still trying to deal with are military cause and VA Exasperated to the critical point. Example: Doctor that treated me in the military for angina said it was STRESS related (and also Maybe too much coffee–like sailors in general don’t all drink too much coffee). The VA says it is not service connected, because of the reason given above. Well 1st.- it happen while in. @nd, the stress was present on the submarines that I was on., 3rd, the event that caused my PTSD happen shortly before the heart issues–contributing to the stress. That was dismissed because they said that I did not show the normal signs of PTSD while I was in. The signs like, alcohol related problems, relationship issues, because no family member wrote a supporting letter on my behalf as to how my behavior changed after the incident. The problem is that I became a drunkard and I got divorced 2 times within a few years of the incident. I got 2 DUIs and was placed on the antibuse program while awaiting medical discharge. I had been getting marriage counseling that eventually fail as did that marriage. I became obsessed with thoughts of suicide. No that has not help my case. So all that the VA nonministration has been successful in doing is getting my depression and anger issues to flare up to the breaking POINT. Do I wish that I was part of the hopeless 22 veterans who are taking their lives daily. Well the VA would probably say that if I did wish (synonymous with hoping) I was one of them than I mustn’t been 100% hopeless. My cardiologist have written research on the affects of PTSD on heart patients and how my case is affected by both issues and the VA clerk assigned to my case with his/her massive encyclopedic knowledge base of cardiology and PTSD as related to health and mental health knows more that the Cardiologist, who has now operated on me 3 times, and the 2 psychologists and 1 psychiatrist who have all been treating me for years. After all that clerk must have at least a high school diploma–I think. They do not see how this game they play is not a game for us. It can make a difference of whether we are part of the 22 if we are lucky, or one who becomes homeless of a recluse. Maybe one whose is lucky enough to have the sense to continue taking our meds or maybe not and then becoming one of the lucky 22. I have waited over 2 years fighting with them all the way. I’m actually lucky I know of some who have fought for over 8 years. Sometimes I wish that the number 22 per day (I know its only an average and not a fix number) were more like a waiting list that drawing a number like a lottery because they the VA Administration the president and the congress are all just as guilty and with the same amount of blood on their hands.
everyday you have the same odds of being one of the luckyor not. If not pick a number again tomorrow and wait. I am so tired of trying to play an unwinnable game. I have felt like the person who brought a handful of stone to a ballistic missile fight. Thank you Mr. President, Mr. Secretary, members of the congress. I hope that when I finally become one of the 1-22 that you remember me every time you try to fall asleep. I realize that this note will do nothing to change the system in which all the powers at be only care about themselves and how much power they can impose of the broken. The broken that they all had a hand in the breaking of the individual.