Medcare Forum » vets http://medcareforum.com Health Care Information, News and Resources Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:32:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 The VA Sends Bad News To Vets by Mistake http://medcareforum.com/archives/2009/08/25/the-va-sends-bad-news-to-vets-by-mistake http://medcareforum.com/archives/2009/08/25/the-va-sends-bad-news-to-vets-by-mistake#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:23:11 +0000 Kathleen Milazzo http://medcareforum.com/archives/2009/08/25/the-va-sends-bad-news-to-vets-by-mistake      A glitch in the computer system at the VA sent out letters by accident to about 1200 Vets, telling them that they have ALS or more popularly known as Lou Gehrigs Disease. This disease is fatal and affects the muscles in the body.

Many of these vets have already spent up to $3000 of their own money to get second opinions to see if they really had the illness.

Some vets have called a Gulf War Vets Group who looked into this. They want the VA to reimburse those that have shelled out money for second opinions, and to retest those that have not had second opinions yet.

Getting a letter with that kind of news has to not only be scary , but devestating as well. The vets that got those letters do deserve the VA putting this right, computer error or not.

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