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Tips for Cutting Wait Time on Civilian Prescriptions

Unfortunately there’s a price veterans pay when seeing a doctor or being treated at a hospital outside of the VA network—any prescriptions come with a wait time of at least 2-4 weeks while the VA evaluates the doctors’ notes to...

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Recent Combat Veterans Can Receive 5 Years of Free Health Care

Let me start this blog off by stating that I don’t know much about healthcare. In no way is this blog post meant to serve as a “how to” guide for VA health care. However, yesterday while I was messing...

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What is the difference between a diagnosed and an undiagnosed illness?

Have you ever struggled to understand something that so many people you know grasp so quickly? I will admit that I find myself in this type of situation often. For instance, when I competed in speech and debate in high...

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Don’t Fall Into the Treatment Gap

I know I can often sound like a corrupt MP3 file-that’s a broken record for my older readers-but I can’t stress how important medical evidence is for any Veterans Disability claim. While a lack of treatment as a whole is...

Healthcare VA Benefits Process

How to guarantee your VA claim is approved…seek treatment

Ok, in reality, there is no way to 100% guarantee your VA disability claim gets approved. You could have video evidence of your injury as well as handwritten buddy statements from 30 Marines, The Secretary of Defense, and God, and...

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Who knows more (About VA Claims): Doctors or Attorneys?

Do doctors really know it all? I’d like to think that when it comes to practicing medicine they do. However, I was a little put off last time I saw my physician. When asking him about changing my medication, he...

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The Health Concerns Asbestos Exposure has Caused for Veterans

Until the 1970s, the U.S. military used a number of asbestos products in each of their branches. Boilers, cooling systems and friction parts all commonly contained asbestos – as did many of the materials used to construct military bases. Around...

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Do I meet the requirements to receive health care at the VA?

In our firm, we don’t always get questions about Disability claims for Veterans. Sometimes we receive general questions about VA health care. One of the questions we are often asked is “Why am I not being treated at the VA for...

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