Is This What Veterans Deserve? Inside a VA Outpatient Clinic

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]So, I just left VA outpatient appointment as a veteran. There's always pros and cons or bittersweet that in regards to coming to a VA appointment, it's great because I have free healthcare. As a 100% disabled veteran, I get free healthcare for the rest of my life. But as you enter the office and you see everything in there, you're like, it's all old and it's not updated.

[00:00:23]It's the lowest bidder type thing.

[00:00:26]Everything's inexpensive. Nothing's modernized and looking nice versus a civilian or an outside care facility.

[00:00:33]When you go for your appointments, you get something that's different in care, better care, more modernized. This is exactly what social medicine is like.

[00:00:42]When people say, "Oh, we should have socialized medicine." When the government has to pay for something, they're always going to go with the cheapest option available. And that's exactly what you get when you go to VA hospital, when you go to VA outpatient clinics and things like that. That's exactly what we would get if we did have socialized medicine. So, it's the biggest experiment, I guess you could say, or biggest example of what it would look like. That's my take on it. So, I'm proud to be a veteran. Proud to be able to take advantage of this free healthcare, but it comes at its cost.

[00:01:11]Another cost is that it takes a long time to get an appointment. Sometimes it takes over a month or 2 months. Luckily, I'm in the Kargo VA, not the Miami VA, which is a lot faster. This is Homestead. I went for optometry. So mortgage it out.