{"id":1617,"date":"2014-08-11T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/08\/11\/who-in-va-has-vets-back\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:23","slug":"who-in-va-has-vets-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Who In The VA Has The Vets&#8217; Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11600,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/hotair.com\\\/headlines\\\/archives\\\/2014\\\/03\\\/14\\\/do-you-still-have-my-back&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/hotair.com\\\/headlines\\\/archives\\\/2014\\\/03\\\/14\\\/do-you-still-have-my-back&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11601,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/photos.washingtonexaminer.biz\\\/cache\\\/r960-c695f4aefe8a1a134139d90200ab390e.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11602,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.asheville.va.gov&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.asheville.va.gov\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11603,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.va.gov\\\/HEALTH\\\/docs\\\/VAMC_Patient_Access_Data_20140731.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.va.gov:443\\\/HEALTH\\\/docs\\\/VAMC_Patient_Access_Data_20140731.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI brought my Honda in for service this morning. The car in line ahead of me had the following bumper sticker which I understand is <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/headlines\/archives\/2014\/03\/14\/do-you-still-have-my-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given to donors to the Democratic National Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photos.washingtonexaminer.biz\/cache\/r960-c695f4aefe8a1a134139d90200ab390e.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.washingtonexaminer.biz\/cache\/r960-c695f4aefe8a1a134139d90200ab390e.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The car was driven by a middle-aged woman who also had a VA employee parking decal for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asheville.va.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles George VA Medical Center<\/a> in Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>As long-time readers may know, my father was a career US Army non-com. When he was medically retired in 1972, he depended upon the VA health care system for his medical care. From what I remember, he received good care from VA hospitals in both North Carolina and Maine. I don&#8217;t remember him ever speaking of having to wait to receive care.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/HEALTH\/docs\/VAMC_Patient_Access_Data_20140731.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most current VA wait time statistics for the Charles George VA Medical Center<\/a>, one sees some significant wait times especially for new patients. It takes over 31 days for a new patient to see a primary care physician\/FNP\/PA, 43.57 days to see a specialist, and almost 32 days to see a mental health professional. The stats are better for existing patients in that they average a week or less across the board. It could be worse as the wait times at the VA medical centers in both Durham and Fayetteville are significantly longer.<\/p>\n<p>After looking at these numbers, I still am moved to ask &#8211; who has the vet&#8217;s back?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brought my Honda in for service this morning. The car in line ahead of me had the following&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[396,2531,1747],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}