Posted on Mar 11, 2016
Wounded Warrior Project and the VA, which one is failing veterans more?
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On the one hand it was reported that the WWP only spends about 60% of its money on vets. On the other hand the VA is notoriously slow and shrouded in internal controversy among its civilian employees serving our nations vets. Does anybody have any ridiculous VA or WWP experience/stories?
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PFC Alexander Oliveira While I do not have any stories to share, the answer to your question is that the VA is failing veterans more, as they are a Government agency tasked and funded with taxpayer money to take care of veterans, whereas the WWP is a charitable organization that claims to take care of veterans, using donations. They both appear to be inept and are failing to fulfill their purported missions.
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Has to be the VA since they are funded by the working class and have been around since 1930, yet they woefully inept.
We've all heard the stories of the back log they have with disability claims. We've all heard the stories of the back log they have for healthcare.
I work for an orthopedic surgeon (who is a veteran) and we are an accredited non-VA provider. We've had to cancel joint replacements for several of our patients in 2015 because the VA took way to long to authorize the surgery. We have yet to schedule anything for 2016 because of the wait time. Our plan is to wait until authorization has been approved before even scheduling surgery, which we don't do with our other patients because all other insurances take much less time to grant authorization.
But it's not only that....
On the average, it really takes longer for us to get authorization for healthcare needs for our veterans that use the VA healthcare system than it does for any of our other patients and that just isn't right. Authorizations for MRIs or simply office visits are a lot harder to get with the VA.
We've all heard the stories of the back log they have with disability claims. We've all heard the stories of the back log they have for healthcare.
I work for an orthopedic surgeon (who is a veteran) and we are an accredited non-VA provider. We've had to cancel joint replacements for several of our patients in 2015 because the VA took way to long to authorize the surgery. We have yet to schedule anything for 2016 because of the wait time. Our plan is to wait until authorization has been approved before even scheduling surgery, which we don't do with our other patients because all other insurances take much less time to grant authorization.
But it's not only that....
On the average, it really takes longer for us to get authorization for healthcare needs for our veterans that use the VA healthcare system than it does for any of our other patients and that just isn't right. Authorizations for MRIs or simply office visits are a lot harder to get with the VA.
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