Gov. Dean and the VA--the typical Leftist example concerning health care

You are absolutely right that Dean probably has no personal experience with the Veteran's Administration or he wouldn't be so quick to sing their praises!

My father was a veteran of the Coast Guard during the Korean War in the early 50s. From 1996-1999, he had a host of medical problems-heart attack, quad bypass surgery, double knee replacements.... During those VA hospitalizations, the nurses and staff made him feel like he was an imposition rather than someone they were there to care for and serve.

In October of 1999 after suffering dizzy spells, which he'd complained about to them before but was told it was only his nerves, he had one of those dye tests which are in and of themselves dangerous. With his history of fainting spells and dizzy spells,he really ought to have had a MRI or CAT scan before but they did not give him either.

It was found he had major blockages on both sides of his neck so he was scheduled for that surgery where they clean out the neck arteries. He lay in a VA hospital in Charleston,SC for a week and every day I asked him if he'd had a CAT scan yet. Everyday it was no. He had the surgery on Friday and, unbelievably, he was sent home on Sat.!

He was a 68yr old man with a bad health history! Two days later he suffered a massive cerebral hemorage and was brain dead by the next morning. I personally hold the VA hospital responsible for not doing some kind of test like a CAT scan to determine if the vessels in my father's brain were up to the trauma of surgery.

The surgery is very common and I know of several men much older than my dad who fared quite well afterward. If the VA had been a private facility me and my family would have sued them for all they were worth. I lost my dad I believe from the VA's callous negligence-it is a great example of what life would be like for our elderly citizens with Obamacare!!!