Tag Archives: Gulf War Claims Help

WILL VA ATTAIN 125 DAY/98% ACCURACY BY 2015?

Posted on March 5, 2014 by asknod

Open voting. No cookies. No sign in. No track back. Please be honest. It will let you vote more than once because I don’t want it to be a “in order to vote you will have to register or sign … Continue reading →

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CAVC–PEOPLES V. SHINSEKI–“DEXEDRINE? SORRY, WE DON’T SEE IT”

Posted on March 4, 2014 by asknod

Once again we venture into reversal land at the CAVC. This is my pet subject. It allows us to minutely examine BVA jurisprudence and see where they saddled up the horse called Illogical and rode out onto the fruited plain … Continue reading →

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CAVC–MAUGHAN V. SHINSEKI–ANY OLD DOC THAT YOU THINK WILL DO

Posted on March 4, 2014 by asknod

The following case illustrates what a lot of you who file for HCV are encountering. It also exhibits a large amount of chutzpah on the VA’s and the BVA’s part about what they think constitutes justice. Many of us wait … Continue reading →

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DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED

Posted on March 1, 2014 by asknod

In an  extreme act of compassion, my medical insurance company, Premera Blue Cross elected to grant me access to Sovaldi yesterday. Being a little shy of $180,000 smackeroos, I was definitely wondering how this was going to pan out. With … Continue reading →

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BVA– NEW 2014 DECISIONS ARE OUT

Posted on February 26, 2014 by asknod

As usual, the BVA has released their new, early 2014 decisions without creating a new “2014” category folder for them. They appear in the 2013 box and will be sorted out and segregated later. Additionally, they released some of their … Continue reading →

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HO CHI MINH TRAIL PHOTOS

Posted on February 25, 2014 by asknod

Here’s a great retrospective at ground level of what we tried to bomb back into the stone age. It seems rather odd forty years later to view these relics and recognize what we were seeing from altitude close up. I … Continue reading →

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VHA BACKLOG REPAIR ORDER–DELETE SCHEDULED EXAMS

Posted on February 25, 2014 by asknod

Well, golly gee willakers. You have to hand it to the VHA. VHA being the highly touted Veterans Health Administration. Every day I hear all manner of kind things about what the VHA has done for Johnny Vet. How he … Continue reading →

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SHOWDOWN AT THE VARO CORRAL

Posted on February 24, 2014 by asknod

Things have been “brewing” shall we say, between the VA and their slaves down in the galley at the mighty ship Columbia of South Carolina. This has been going on for quite some time but one would think that quarreling … Continue reading →

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VA NEWS RELEASE

Posted on February 22, 2014 by asknod

VA has finally released a picture of the new Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS) computer interface hookup at the Oakland Regional Office. Douglas Bragg, the director of the Oakland Veterans Service Center, pictured here in the ”clean room”, demonstrates how the … Continue reading →

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VA/MEDICARE RULES FOR SOVALDI

Posted on February 22, 2014 by asknod

Here’s the latest monogram everyone’s been working from to determine who gets the Sovaldi, how much and for how long. Additionally. they are still trying to pawn off the bug juice (Interferon) on those unsuspecting few with Genotype 1A&B who … Continue reading →

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