There are many local veterans who use our local VA Clinic. We just got a new one here, and already there are problems. A number of health care people have quit. The Administration problem is getting worse.
One thing in particular is Non service related Veterans who use the VA as their Primary Care, in place of the ACA (farce), or the so called Affordable Care Act, other wise known as Obama Care.
Many Non service related Veterans, some of whom are homeless, are now telling me that they are experiencing problems with Healthcare billing. They call the 24 hour triage number as required, and are told to go to a local hospital for care, seeing how the nearest VA hospitals are 90 and 150 miles away respectively.
These Veterans should then be covered by the VA 100 percent as they are emergency needs. Yet these same Veterans are now telling me that even though they tell the Local Hospitals to bill the VA directly as FIRST PROVIDER, the hospitals are billing their medicare accounts, leaving them with huge co-pays that they cannot pay, or have no money for.
This makes them believe the VA is now trying to dump the Non service related Veterans from its Health care rolls.
This is happening in West Michigan. Is anyone else seeing this happen at their Local VA facility?
If so, please drop us a comment, (which will remain private). Thank you.
