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Veterans

Cold War Spook

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3. Choice Plus works for me.

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Aug 11, 2017, 07:40 AM

Aug 2017

I live 2 1/2 hours from the Fayetteville NC VA hospital and its new clinic. I live 1 1/2 hours away from the Wilmington VA clinic. There is a clinic near me in Jacksonville, but all it is, is primary care, psych and blood work. I am 74 years old and need a lot of tests and specialists. So far this year, Choice Plus has found me a local eye doctor, neurologist, sleep apnea specialist and dermatologist. I did have to go to a non-VA hospital in Wilmington for a heart catherterization and the Wilmington VA for an MRI. I have not had to go to Fayetteville for over 2 years. I know that Congress is never going to increase the VA budget enough for them to hire the 40,000 health care providers it needs.

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