Clinton promises VA reform, trashes Trump in VFW speech

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7. My experience with the VA has been entirly negative.

I suffered several strong electrical shocks, was exposed to high levels of radiation, and many, many toxic chemicals. Including DU dust.

The VA says that my neurological conditions are not their responsibility, because the entire last year of my service when I started experiencing problems, every doctor I saw in the Air Force wrote either "heat stroke" or "stress" when I started having seizures.

And for my psychological problems? A guy walked in, fifteen minutes late and eating a sandwich, and asked me "Do you feel that you're mentally ill?" And I said, "I don't know. Maybe, but I can function." So that was that. Everything I saw and did, all the nightmares and inability to really have relationships... Not the VA's responsibility!

You want to fix the VA? Quit hiring doctors who don't give a shit, or never served and don't understand what we're going through. Make our checks more than a pittance. Allow VA doctors and records to be used by Social Security for getting disability. (Which itself is less than half the poverty line for most recipients).