Had my four year checkup yesterday: no cancer return!

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56. Corporations want to privatize it. They've been fighting hard for this since W. they shut down ...

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... very specific VA centers to compel vets to travel far enough that they are compelled to use more local civilian hospitals.

I drive 80 miles round way to Austin for my primary care physician, and I drive 170 miles round way to Temple for the serious stuff.

We have a pretty good Baylor Scott & White here in Marble Falls. I'd rather drive to the VA. Most of the Doctors I have, I had from the beginning, since 2008. I've had Cadillac health care before and VA is so much better.

When I got out of the Navy in '73 my first job was at the Brecksville VA Center outside of Cleveland. My first day I made my wife promise me I would not end up in a VA hospital. It was bad.

When I needed to use my insurance I was working in 2007, we discovered it had been cancelled because my schedule got below 32 hours per week. My wife actually signed me up for VA because I wouldn't do it. My wife saved my life. VA has changed since the bad old days when VA was where a vet ended up when he could go nowhere else and died in a VA hospital bed.

I have stories.

But there's money in it: I know the value of all my treatment is over a million dollars. A private insurance company'd have delayed treatment hoping either I or the cancer would just go away.