Dear Editor:
Government health plan?
Prepare yourself to have payment rejected because you showed up at a private emergency room for a stroke instead of driving two hours to a government-run medical facility for treatment.
Don’t believe me?
Ask any veteran. One hundred percent of disabled veterans ‘do not? have the right to choose their own doctor or use the closest medical facility! Even if the government tells nurses, say, to go to the emergency room, they tell you you may be responsible for payment if some clerk decides it’s not an emergency. Yes, this has happened to me and many other veterans. Government medical treatment will give you pills for treatment and not actual medical treatment. Yes, this is what veterans that have given their all for this country have been reduced to, for the guaranteed medical treatment under the Montgomery GI Bill when they become 100 percent disabled veterans. If they treat honored veterans this way, just how well do you think they will treat citizens?
Our government will gladly make all the promises now, but will continue to spend more on war than they ever will on medical health for the citizens of this country. Veteran, senior, or just a working Joe!
Robert Therrien Brandon Township