I agree with USAFRet. I am in the middle of many health problems and I know I need information on doctors and hospitals. The VA makes it impossible to find out who is better: hospitals and doctors. If you read the VAOIG reports then you know that criminal negligence and fraud happens on a regular basis, procedures are not followed there is insufficient data for conclusions about who was responsible in someone’s death. Now it has been announced that certain VAOIG health inspections will never be available to veterans again once people started finding out what a disgrace that the VA Medical Centers and Nursing Homes are. Heck, half the time the forms are not filled out about who did what and where and when. Having in place guidelines and regulations and policy that is not followed on a regular basis is scary. It took me two years to prove to the VAMC I have to go to that I had heart disease and digestive diseases. Why you ask? Because they did not believe me when I told them so. I went to private doctors to get the diagnosis verified the paperwork would not get entered into their electronic system until over 24 months later after several attempts by me to get it into the system. The CD that had the calcium scoring scan from UNC Chapel Hill also was refused repeatedly (I was told it might have a virus). The stills of the video of my digestive upper and lower areas were not entered because I was told they could not properly scan them. I have had doctors who were great and some who out and out lied. For several years I have had substantial problems with the VAMC after fighting the VA itself for years to get rated for all of my combat related injuries/diseases. If I had a health care card like the members of congress or even the VA union members I would never walk into another VAMC again. I feel every member of congress and the unions and the residents that work there from the Universities should have no choice but to use the VA Medical Centers for their care, only then will anything change. It is a national disgrace that those who fought when asked have to have worse healthcare than those who sent them into combat in the first place. I volunteered but I will never see my child grow up with the level of care I received and continue to receive most of the time.