Good day, Reddit! I am a veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars answering an undeniable calling to do whatever I can to bring our people home. After I exhausted every tool at my disposal while working from home in the United States i left for Doha, Qatar, in order to spend time face-to-face with officials from the U.S. and Qatar (as well as diplomats from other countries, civilians, and anyone else with even a shred of usable information) in an effort to bring home our allies and their families. I hit dead-end after dead-end with unanswered emails and phone calls, so I decided it would be most effective if I just got into the thick of it. You may have heard that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a (relative) success, but for very good reasons I did not, at all, buy that rhetoric. Ask me absolutely anything.
EDIT: Everyone, thank you so much for asking your questions. It's 1 am here and my eyes are starting to cross, so I am going to log off for now. When I get back on I will look through the comments to see if there are any unanswered questions that need answers or snarky comments that deserve a retort. Good night and stay safe
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I know over the summer the VA said they were starting to cover Gender Affirming surgeries. Has hay one gone threw this proses yet ? At this time I don’t want the full surgery but only an Orchiectomy but it should be covered under the same rules
Thanks
I've always wonder this. Whether it's on Reddit, on Federal Soup. on Facebook groups for federal employees, all I hear is negative things about the VA. I realize that the VA is a huge department with various agencies, but it is really that bad?
If so, what makes it that bad? I don't have any experience with the VA (I'm in agency #3) but just curious if current and former employees can chime in.
I work in a large hospital but something appeals to me about the smaller vet centers. Does anybody here work for one that can tell me about it?
How do you interpret this question?
“Is the Veteran’s migraine at least as likely as not (50 percent or greater probability) proximately due to or the result of tinnitus; anxiety condition?”
Does this question mean that the doctor has to agree that BOTH my tinnitus and my anxiety condition resulted in causing migraines
Or……
Does this question mean that the doctor just has to agree that one or the other (tinnitus or anxiety condition) resulted in causing migraines.
I have never seen a semicolon used in that way before.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA41]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA41] is the chair of the committee.
Does anyone else here work for the VA, and if so, can you explain the magic needed to bump up from a step 1 to a step 2 level nurse? I have put so much work into writing this proficiency and I was denied. I’m appealing the decision but I’m worried all this extra work will be for nothing.
I find this whole process very discouraging and frustrating. Why should a group of nurses who don’t know me or my work ethic get to remain anonymous and withhold info on why the request for a raise was denied? My manager gets no say whatsoever. I work with several nurses who have been stuck at a step 1 for years. I find that to be so unacceptable. With cost of living raises past years hovering at 1% they are losing out on a lot of money.
So I mean this might be an Australian specific thing, bit I understand that other countries have similar things with dental ≠ medical care.
Also I'm not talking elective dental, I'm talking regular everyday dental things by comparison to regular everyday medical things.
I'm just going to use Australia as an example because that's what I know.
So through Medicare in Australia, you don't get Dental coverage unless it's super super critical (like an infected tooth abscess that has gone Septic)
Through veterans affairs, you can get a Gold Card, entitling the bearer to "Full healthcare coverage, whole of body, and limited dental"
Now, a few people have said that Dental issues are somewhat preventable, and this is true...but...
If I lead an unhealthy lifestyle through personal choice and I have preventable obesity... I'll still get healthcare for preventable illnesses caused by my preventable obesity.
If I'm riding my dirt bike on my farm like a loony, and I stack it whilst I'm being an utter idiot (being an utter idiot is preventable), and I need an ambulance when I stack my dirt bike, my ambulance/helicopter ride is covered and off I go. To go be an idiot again.
At least in QLD, ambulances are covered, that's a state based thing.
Now I'm not saying fat people or idiots on motorbikes don't deserve healthcare, healthcare is realistically a right that people should have.
But why don't people get dental care? I mean, the idiot hurt himself because he could afford said motorbike.
But there are people in the world that literally can't afford toothpaste or a toothbrush, let alone floss, mouthwash, and everything required for proper dental care.
So when they have a tooth issue, they just have to live with it, or hope it gets bad enough it's a threat to their life, and then they can get it covered for free.
I also get that dentists are a specialised healthcare, but here they offer physio, orthopaedic, oncogy, heaps and heaps of medical specialists are covered by Medicare.
Like when I snapped my kneecap in half 7 years ago, I saw an orthopaedic surgeon who put it back together, if I wasn't in the military back then, I still would have been covered by Medicare. That exact surgeon was Medicare aligned.
Even insurance companies, you go to an insurance company and say "Hi, I want health insurance" and they'll say "What extras do you want? Physio? Massage? Acupuncture? Dental?"
Dental becomes an extra, it's not even in a basic package for Insurance.
So y
... keep reading on reddit ➡Applying for veteran's benefits shortly, and I'm given the choice of representative from the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, or from the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs.
As far as I can tell, it may be more convenient overall to have a state-connected entity handle my claims junk, but I've also read great (and not so great) reviews for both the DAV and the AL, so I'm pretty torn on who to choose.
Does anyone here have experience with the state department? Should I just go with the private groups? I appreciate any help :)
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I know over the summer the VA said they were starting to cover Gender Affirming surgeries. Has hay one gone threw this proses yet ? At this time I don’t want the full surgery but only an Orchiectomy but it should be covered under the same rules
Thanks
