Bill, Charlotte's and Jan's pegs

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The VA must have redone some deals with Medicare the first of this year. Before that beds, mattresses, food, pumps, bags, pharmaceuticals and provider services were more personal than automated , purchased outright rather than rented from the lowest bidder. Now you deal with numbers and monthly band aid fixes. Missed appointments because of illness are shoved another month forward, AFTER ER or office visit diagnosis, clinic or outpatient care may be provided. If you can't go, you are out of luck. Telephone messages are see Dr,see Dr, see Dr, no matter what. In our case the lengthy chain of command invites errors that cannot be tracked down much less corrected. The bag and 2 formula orders go thru nursing, nutrition, doctor or nurse practioner, pharmacy RX orders, warehouse or mfg direct orders, US mail or parcel service, AND to be refilled must be reordered individually each month on different dates. All three RX snowflakes have six month old seemingly incorrectable errors and tomorrow I'll try a Medicare supplier (new shoes may mean new corns) affiliated with the Home Health agency. Food stamps redeemable at WalMart would simplify this mess considerably.

Have you considered how much we cost the taxpayers despite the Medicare and supplemental insurance? Someday I'd like to tote and chronicle Jan's progression from a pragmatic objective viewpoint. Right now, gotta go do the man.

What was all this about your trunk? Expecting the pvc nurse replaceable new peg to be everlasting, Good luck with the hand injections. Thinking of you both, Louise

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If I understand this system and the info from Medicare, there are no benifits from Medicare to the VA system.

With your Medicare benifits, you can go to any physcian and not fool around with VA if you are not pleased.

If you are having touble with a local facility, I suggest you contact your congressman/woman. We did so once for our son following Desert Storm who need back surgery. The VA reps were calling our son before the day was over begging him to come in for services/treatment.

The VA system in TN has been very helpful in the treatment of my husband who has SDS/MSA.

Marilyn in TN

Reply-To: shydrager

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:08:30 -0500

To: <shydrager >

Subject: Bill, Charlotte's and Jan's pegs

The VA must have redone some deals with Medicare the first of this year. Before that beds, mattresses, food, pumps, bags, pharmaceuticals and provider services were more personal than automated , purchased outright rather than rented from the lowest bidder. Now you deal with numbers and monthly band aid fixes. Missed appointments because of illness are shoved another month forward, AFTER ER or office visit diagnosis, clinic or outpatient care may be provided. If you can't go, you are out of luck. Telephone messages are see Dr,see Dr, see Dr, no matter what. In our case the lengthy chain of command invites errors that cannot be tracked down much less corrected. The bag and 2 formula orders go thru nursing, nutrition, doctor or nurse practioner, pharmacy RX orders, warehouse or mfg direct orders, US mail or parcel service, AND to be refilled must be reordered individually each month on different dates. All three RX snowflakes have six month old seemingly incorrectable errors and tomorrow I'll try a Medicare supplier (new shoes may mean new corns) affiliated with the Home Health agency. Food stamps redeemable at WalMart would simplify this mess considerably.

Have you considered how much we cost the taxpayers despite the Medicare and supplemental insurance? Someday I'd like to tote and chronicle Jan's progression from a pragmatic objective viewpoint. Right now, gotta go do the man.

What was all this about your trunk? Expecting the pvc nurse replaceable new peg to be everlasting, Good luck with the hand injections. Thinking of you both, Louise

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