The Care They've Earned (2018)

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Documentary

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It is a gripping look into six proud veterans' experiences with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) as they seek to manage the mental and physical trauma they sustained in uniform. The documentary details their experiences with an embattled VA - from botched surgeries to misdiagnoses to personnel shortfalls - and educates about the fundamental changes and reforms that are needed to ensure our veterans are taken care of in a way that honors their service. It asks viewers to reflect on serious and complex questions about what kind of care our veterans have earned after they hang up their uniforms and when, how, and where they receive that care. The Care They've Earned tells the stories of six veterans, but it highlights the struggles of finding adequate health care that all veterans face. It educates about the opportunity that more choices could mean for our veterans to receive the care they need - when and where they need it.

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A bunch of propaganda dressed up like a Rick Burns "Debt of Honor" style documentary catered towards selling ignorant American's on killing the Department of Veterans Affairs instead of actually fixing it. Given how well America's private health care system is working out I don't know if that's the best option. Especially because so many of the problems with the VA have more to do with a lack of funding when the GWOT started, complete denials about blast related TBIs, PTSD, and other disorders which lasted for decades and occurred at the national level as part of policy because it was more "convenient" for Americans at the time to pretend like a higher percentage of veterans haven't been coming home alive since the American Civil War. I would like to know who financed this documentary having actually sat through it. Yes. The VA is messed up. I would know. I'm regularly having to deal with this personally. But I also have a wife, I see her private American health care she receives on a regular basis and I want NONE of it. Yes there IS truth to the argument that for some illnesses it is more cost effective or less stressful to the patient to seek care outside an actual VA facility. That is NOT a statement against the VA, that is a statement to the total cost of war which Americans still refuse to shoulder in the 21st century. You don't fix ANYTHING by saying "I quit" and frankly given the archival footage I've seen of VA waiting rooms after the 2nd world war, America had NO business going into Iraq or Afghanistan before making sure the VA was squared away first. You can sit there and "support the troops" and say "thank you for your service" all you want. That doesn't change anything, and selling out to private companies is just an attempt to sweep the problem back under the rug. This documentary is nothing more than an attempt by private companies to further profit off of war, which is probably why America seems to be in them so often and why they seem to drag on. Will some help be needed from the private sector, especially to deal with an acute crisis? Yeah, maybe but privatizing the VA is just selling America our "own fat asses back to us". If you actually cared about troops you'd think about these things before demanding they be sacrificed for you in the first place. Remember, any time you hear the words "privatize" regardless of if it's a PMC or doctor's office, all that word means is that somebody figured out a way to make money off of it. Not that they actually fixed the real issues. - @Friday, November 9, 2018 8:41 PM