ABC had a segment on the caregivers of wounded warriors. Mostly women in their late twenties and early thirties now caring for their husbands who were horribly wounded during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The men are still the same men they married. But they can't take care of themselves.
A recurring theme was the perpetual red-tape where it comes with dealing with the DoD and VA.
I will admit that the VA has treated me well. But it takes the patience of the Sphinx. And the willingness to be a pain in the ass.
Most of these families are used to doing whatever is needed and trusted that when or if the time comes the service they signed up for would take care of them. They are not by nature squeaky wheels.
It breaks my heart to think of how poorly they are treated - not on purpose, but rather because of the cumbersome nature of such a behemoth as the VA.
The young wife who sent her big, manly Army officer husband off to Afghanistan and got back a man with no legs and one arm. For better or for worse is a lot easier to say than the life that woman lives.
With it comes a daily battle of paperwork and closed doors and unanswered phone calls.
It is a micro-example what you can expect from a single-payer health care system in the United States, not to mention the obama-abortion that is the ACA. The weakest link is that it is run by unionized federal employees.
Who could give a flying fuck about you. Believe me, in the last 3 years of my Navy career I worked mostly with government employees. Their preeminent concern was how early they could leave.
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