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I'm pretty sure that's why my great-uncle killed himself... he was a WWII vet, married to a Holocaust survivor, and took his life by CO2 poisoning in the garage. I never met him, since that happened about a decade before I was born. My grandmother (his sister) always blamed it on his wife, but that's a story for another time. Anyway, yes. It is very sad how many vets never had access or information on treating PTSD, even today.
We (vets) all have access and the information. Some just don’t want to engage for various reasons: pride, denial, anger, fear of reprisals, unwillingness to challenge acquired addictions …
Original Medicare is a single payer type healthcare system
I'm not sure what you mean by "original Medicare". Medicare, insofar as it requires supplemental insurance for full coverage, sounds like the hybrid programs France and Switzerland have. I haven't taken a close look at those, though, to see how Medicare +supplemental insurance compare.
All that money just adds to debt and inflation which we are seeing today. I would like to see the vets get wider treatment options. Here in SD we have thousand of military that are homeless and get little help besides a tent and a sandwich.
Why are they homeless? Untreated PTSD? Lack of job skills? What about VA college benefits?
Whether or not patients can self-refer is an insurance company matter, not a state matter, AFAIK. For example, Kaiser, being an HMO, doesn't allow patients to see specialists without a referral from their primary care doc, no matter where they're located, I'm told. BCBS does, or maybe it depends on the specific plan, but BCBS has allowed me to self-refer to specialists wherever I've lived.
The odd thing is, the primary care docs I've seen don't refer patients to specialists. It's up to the patient to research the type of specialist that's appropriate for them, then Google those specialists, read all the reviews, and choose one. It can be a very time-consuming process.
It sounds like he spent his post-war life in a state of shock. it's actually very easy to resolve that, and the technique that achieves it was tested on Vietnam vets in the 80's, but the psychiatric establishment blocked it from being adopted by the VA or anyone else, even though the VA had documented success. The psych establishment said, the person who developed the technique hadn't explained sufficiently how it works. She later did that, so now it's been available for Gulf War vets, Afghanistan vets, etc. But it got roadblocked in the beginning, so people like your dad missed out on it. Very sad.
Most reasonable people would ask, "What's wrong with this picture?"
A limited information article but your headline "Illegals to get free healthcare while Californians struggle." implies that regular Californians are excluded which they're not.
There is a significant illegal population in California that live, work, pay taxes and get sick all the posturing and rhetoric doesn't eliminate that fact and their not the only state. All he is proposing is allowing them to be eligible for the health care system because now they go to the emergency rooms and don't pay which drives the cost up for everyone.
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C'mon Man - who else is going to pick the grapes at Nancy Pelosi's Napa Valley Vineyard.
Need to keep those immigrants in good health for Nancy and her drink driving husband.
Probally the same work force that is doing the yard work and a new roof for Governor Newsome of Texas...
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