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barstoolguru wrote: . . . Someone mention they refused them because of a high income level. I have never heard of that but my woman was in the National Guard and she can't get medical attention there because she was not a full time solider

The "Financial Eligibility Calculator" is now online, and apparently my phone company pension combined with my pay from Home Depot put me over some threshold. http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/app ... alculator/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Heartland Patriot wrote:Just "getting in the system" this year, got my initial blood work and physical done. Not a lot wrong with me, thank goodness, and I really don't want to tie up a lot of services that those who truly need them could be using. But, after 20+ years around jet engines, my hearing just isn't so good anymore. I wanted to get it checked as I now have trouble hearing human voices when there is any real background noise. The Ft. Worth clinic is a VERY nice, new facility. The people seem friendly enough...but I'm having to wait about 1 1/2 months to get it checked. We'll see what happens...I'll come back and update this thread once I have my appt.

Yeah, and when I went, decades ago because of shooting five inch guns with cotton for hearing protection, they eventually told me that my hearing loss was normal for a man of my age, 25!

VA has denied me "membership" (for the lack of a better thing to call it) because my income level is too high. I just wish I knew where all that income is.

I went up to Bonham and sat for 4 hours just waiting to apply, because they didn't have anyone there who knew how to run "the machine" (a device to take photographs of applicants). When I was finally waited on it was almost closing time for that office and the young lady was obviously put out that she would have to stay late to take care of me, despite the fact that she sat and did nothing but fiddle around several times between 1pm and almost 5 when she finally "noticed" (my wife went with me) that we were there. AND THEN I STARTED THE PAPERWORK, which I could have had all filled in if I had had it to work on.

Got down to the income verification part of the form and she wanted to know why I hadn't brought a tax return with me and I told her that I didn't think I was buying the place, all I wanted was an ID card. She got a little upset and told me that she stayed late just as a favor to me, and things started to threaten to get ugly until my wife calmed me down. I took the, unfinished, forms with me and went home to finish and fax them in, and two days later, after receiving several busy signals on their fax number, I had almost decided to drive back up there and present the forms when I got a letter in the mail indicating that they were denying me VA coverage because they had determined that my income level was too high.

I went back up later and they couldn't put me in contact with anyone of authority to talk to about the situation, he wasn't there and nobody knew when he would be in, and they wouldn't give me a name so I could call and check, and of course if you start to get insistent, they say things like "If you want any help, you will have to calm down, Sir!" and pointing out that they are not helping at all seems to just irritate them more.

The last trip up, my wife and I took a load of donations to the veterans' home up there, which we have done in the past, and as we left I noticed a large plume of smoke in the sky. There was a house fire just a couple of blocks away and we arrived just about the same time as the apparatus. The officer in charge would not give me a leader line and let me protect an exposure, so we stood around with the gawkers for a while, took some pictures, and then left to go to the farm store, another reason we go to Bonham regularly.

One of these days I will get around to talking to my congressman about it, but it's not all that important, I don't need the medical, all I wanted was the ID.