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If  you want to know what a government run health care system would be like, all you have to do is see what the VA system is like. And, it’s not a pretty picture.

The result of my injury was seven degenerative disks in my spinal column. The VA decided that as young as I was, surgery wasn’t an option. This of course was after spending over a year shuttling from my home in way-south Alabama up to Birmingham for appointments with first an orthopedist who couldn’t understand why I had been sent to him in the first place since I was obviously a neuro patient, then a pain management clinic that just said to keep doing my physical therapy, and finally a neurosurgeon who gave me the news.

Over a year, just to tell me they wouldn’t do anything for me.

When I asked why, I was told that I would probably be in a wheelchair by the time I was thirty, would be impotent, and would be wearing adult diapers before the VA thought it was cost effective to operate on me.

You see, I had to get worse before I could get better.

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In the past five years, I have had problems with my kidneys, liver, and pancreas due to the huge number of drugs I took for so long. I am now a diabetic due to that damage. I have bone spurs in my spine brought on from the steroid shots I received for years at the hands of the VA to help me manage the pain of my injury.

I just called on a new neurosurgeon last week. He will be operating to fix some of those bone spurs in my neck next week. From the time I had the MRI done to recovery room will be just under two months.

Two months.

Two months versus nine years of working through a government medical care program. One that made the lives of not only myself but also my wife and family utterly miserable for years.

If anyone thinks that the government running health care is a good idea, remember all the horror stories that you have heard about how the VA takes care of America’s heroes.

I’ve worked in the VA system, and this guy is telling it like it is. Just say no to ObamaCare. Write to your representatives and encourage the people you know to do so too.