WW2 Veteran enrollment

[Diablos]

hot off the presses, WW2 veterans will receive special enrollment consideration for va healthcare. if they have no other means to come into the system and are pushed out due to income they will now qualify for enrollment and be placed into priority group 6.

 

[Diablos]

go live date 31 march 2023, veteran must submit new application

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Let's see, now:

Dad was born in 1923 and was 18 when WWII broke out and he enlisted in the Army.

He would be 100 years old this April, if he were still alive.

Priority group 6 out of 8 such groups, with priority group 1 being the highest.

Might nice of these people to come up with this cute idea 78 years after then end of WWII when only 167,284 out of the 16 million who served are still alive (as of 2022).


These people disgust me and can eat a bag of Ds for this slap in the face.

VA priority groups | Veterans Affairs

Find out what VA priority groups are, how they work, and how they may affect you.

www.va.gov

Priority group 6​

We may assign you to priority group 6 if any of these descriptions are true:

• You have a compensable service-connected disability that we’ve rated as 0% disabling, or
• You were exposed to ionizing radiation during atmospheric testing or during the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or
• You participated in Project 112/SHAD, or
• You served in the Republic of Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, or
• You served in the Persian Gulf War between August 2, 1990, and November 11, 1998, or
• You served on active duty at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days between August 1, 1953, and December 31, 1987

We may also assign you to priority group 6 if you meet all of these requirements:

• You’re currently or newly enrolled in VA health care, and
• You served in a theater of combat operations after November 11, 1998, and
• You were discharged less than 10 years ago

Note: As a returning combat Veteran, you’re eligible for these enhanced benefits for 10 years after discharge. At the end of this enhanced enrollment period, we’ll assign you to the highest priority group you qualify for at that time.

 

[Diablos]

Let's see, now:

Dad was born in 1923 and was 18 when WWII broke out and he enlisted in the Army.

He would be 100 years old this April, if he were still alive.

Priority group 6 out of 8 such groups, with priority group 1 being the highest.

Might nice of these people to come up with this cute idea 78 years after then end of WWII when only 167,284 out of the 16 million who served are still alive (as of 2022).


These people disgust me and can eat a bag of Ds for this slap in the face.

VA priority groups | Veterans Affairs

Find out what VA priority groups are, how they work, and how they may affect you.

www.va.gov

Priority group 6​

We may assign you to priority group 6 if any of these descriptions are true:

• You have a compensable service-connected disability that we’ve rated as 0% disabling, or
• You were exposed to ionizing radiation during atmospheric testing or during the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or
• You participated in Project 112/SHAD, or
• You served in the Republic of Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, or
• You served in the Persian Gulf War between August 2, 1990, and November 11, 1998, or
• You served on active duty at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days between August 1, 1953, and December 31, 1987

We may also assign you to priority group 6 if you meet all of these requirements:

• You’re currently or newly enrolled in VA health care, and
• You served in a theater of combat operations after November 11, 1998, and
• You were discharged less than 10 years ago

Note: As a returning combat Veteran, you’re eligible for these enhanced benefits for 10 years after discharge. At the end of this enhanced enrollment period, we’ll assign you to the highest priority group you qualify for at that time.

While i can agree with that, i also hear regularly from family desperate for help.

Same "consideration" was given to WW1 veterans at nearly the same time-frame (after the majority of them were in the ground).

If this tells you anything, the government will (generally) be the absolute last recourse veterans have (they take years/decades to acknowledge harmful exposure), so plan accordingly (or avoid altogether)

One other note, "thank" congress

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Governments (federal, state, and local) have historically been long on gestures and short on action.

It wasn't until I was probably in my late teens/early 20s that I found out why Dad didn't care for game wardens one bit. I remember a time when he and I were fishing and a game warden came puttering along the bank towards us. Asked me if I had my fishing license and I pulled mine out and showed him. He puttered over to where Dad was and asked him if he had his fishing license. Dad just sat there on his tackle box, watching his pole, and said "Yep". The game warden stood in his boat for several minutes and finally moved on.

"Why didn't you show him your fishing license, Dad?" "He didn't ask to see it. He asked if I HAD it."

Turns out that way back "in the day", Indiana gave all the returning WWII veterans lifetime fishing licenses in honor of their service. Mom and Dad, both having served, qualified. Not too many years later, Indiana reneged on that and then all the WWII veterans had to buy their fishing licenses every year again.

The government has a history of not treating those who gave a significant portion of their lives over to a life of literally placing themselves in harms way in order to kill or be killed at the government's behest (or being used as involuntary test subjects either secretly, against their will, or under deliberately misleading premises) and then getting shafted afterwards in numerous ways.

I said earlier that as of last year, there were 167,284 WWII veterans out of 16 million still alive. Had something like this been done decades ago, when getting health care would actually make a difference in their longevity and quality of life in their prime and senior years, then perhaps there would have been ten times that number alive today, having passed their wit and wisdom along that much more in the process.

Right now, the average person who has reached 95 is looking at about 3 more years to live, statistically. This means that in about three more years, we'll be lucky to have more than a handful of those 167,284 people left whom we've deemed to be "The Greatest Generation".

This is the very epitome of "token gesture".

Collins Dictionary: You use token to describe things or actions which are small or unimportant, but are meant to show particular intentions or feelings which may not be sincere.

 

[Diablos]

Governments (federal, state, and local) have historically been long on gestures and short on action.

It wasn't until I was probably in my late teens/early 20s that I found out why Dad didn't care for game wardens one bit. I remember a time when he and I were fishing and a game warden came puttering along the bank towards us. Asked me if I had my fishing license and I pulled mine out and showed him. He puttered over to where Dad was and asked him if he had his fishing license. Dad just sat there on his tackle box, watching his pole, and said "Yep". The game warden stood in his boat for several minutes and finally moved on.

"Why didn't you show him your fishing license, Dad?" "He didn't ask to see it. He asked if I HAD it."

Turns out that way back "in the day", Indiana gave all the returning WWII veterans lifetime fishing licenses in honor of their service. Mom and Dad, both having served, qualified. Not too many years later, Indiana reneged on that and then all the WWII veterans had to buy their fishing licenses every year again.

The government has a history of not treating those who gave a significant portion of their lives over to a life of literally placing themselves in harms way in order to kill or be killed at the government's behest (or being used as involuntary test subjects either secretly, against their will, or under deliberately misleading premises) and then getting shafted afterwards in numerous ways.

I said earlier that as of last year, there were 167,284 WWII veterans out of 16 million still alive. Had something like this been done decades ago, when getting health care would actually make a difference in their longevity and quality of life in their prime and senior years, then perhaps there would have been ten times that number alive today, having passed their wit and wisdom along that much more in the process.

Right now, the average person who has reached 95 is looking at about 3 more years to live, statistically. This means that in about three more years, we'll be lucky to have more than a handful of those 167,284 people left whom we've deemed to be "The Greatest Generation".

This is the very epitome of "token gesture".

Collins Dictionary: You use token to describe things or actions which are small or unimportant, but are meant to show particular intentions or feelings which may not be sincere.

they told them (and Veterans that served before the volunteer force) the same about their healthcare, in fact, there is verbiage in va land that addresses the government sellout.