Providing specialty care access to Veterans who need it most

Veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system
are two and a half times more likely to live in rural areas. According
to an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) workforce report,
66% of rural counties have no oncologist. The same report notes that 4
in 10 Americans living in rural areas who have or had cancer say there
are no cancer specialists near their home.

https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/91061/va-stands-shoulder-shoulder-veterans-rural-areas-reduce-disparities-cancer-care/

***** Moderator's Note *****

I'm surprised: I thought the Health-Maintenance Industry would sell long-distance medical care as a benefit "for the children," or "for
the elderly," while they are busy hiring "doctors" in foreign
countries that can be had for maybe a tenth of what a licensed
physician makes here in the good-old-US of A.

I didn't expect it would be sold as a benefit for Veterans. Of course,
this tiny sideways step is a good demonstration of the more subtle
touch or a Democratic President, and at the same time, confirmation
that Joe Biden owes a lot of favors to his wife's colleagues. No
matter: so much money is floating around Washington, D.C. right now
that it's not the vehicle that we need to watch, but the destination:
no matter which group of NOCD working men and women is supposedly
going to "benefit" from long-distance medicine, the real recipients of
all our tax money will be, as always, the ruling class and their
political errand boys.

If you think I'm lost in the ozone, just wait: your father's next
Colonoscopy will be handled by a task-trained menial who will
sort-of-know how to insert the automatic probe without tearing the
patient's anus. If your father is lucky, the low-rent, easily
replaceable menial will remember to use some KY Jelly.

Bill Horne
Moderator

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