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sorefeet

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24. The closest VA hospital

Reply to moondust (Reply #22)

Tue May 20, 2014, 04:12 PM

May 2014

or close to a hospital is 6 hours to Helena. My friend had to go to Salt Lake for lung cancer chemo. It was miserable for him to hop on a plane and travel that far sick with cancer. Jon Tester has done more for Montana vets than anyone. The clinics are spread out so far because of the size of the state and low population. They have VA vans, that volunteers drive the soldiers for hours to get them to a clinic or the Hospital. Lots of Vets are neglected in Montana just because of location. They are the ones that "fell thru the crack".

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The problem with the VA [View all] question everything May 2014 OP

Maybe.... The River May 2014 #1

I can see why you like them, The River! Cha May 2014 #3

Most vets like the VA, Cha pinboy3niner May 2014 #5

Good to know right from a credible source, pinboy! Cha May 2014 #7

The VA is consistently rated as good as or better than top civilian health care in the U.S. pinboy3niner May 2014 #2

This is the reason given as the culprit on another site, pinboy.. :( Cha May 2014 #4

It's kind of ironic pinboy3niner May 2014 #6

Far as I can tell.. the military and the vets were in the gop's corner because they Cha May 2014 #8

Under Obama, in his first year, the VA got its largest budget increase in 30 years pinboy3niner May 2014 #9

Oh don't I know.. and Lies are the gop have in their collective quiver. Cha May 2014 #10

I don't. This is why I asked question everything May 2014 #23

I have received better and faster care under the VA than I ever got with private health insurance. hobbit709 May 2014 #11

Or, perhaps the problem was that bonuses motivated misbehavior HereSince1628 May 2014 #12

I saw this coming back in 2003 Ichingcarpenter May 2014 #13

Amen Ichingcarpenter sorefeet May 2014 #14

RW antigovernmentalism? moondust May 2014 #15

When you call VA sorefeet May 2014 #16

I've used it myself. moondust May 2014 #17

I don't know what state you live in sorefeet May 2014 #19

You should moondust May 2014 #21

Plus after my VA visit sorefeet May 2014 #20

I don't know the whole story but... moondust May 2014 #22

The closest VA hospital sorefeet May 2014 #24

Just another example of the Black man cleaning up after the failed white man administration (s) randys1 May 2014 #18