Your life has to be total shit to brag about qualifying for VA care. I qualify and wouldn't go anywhere near a VA butcher shop. This is however one of the unsung nightmares of O'bungacare in that they dumped millions of veterans into the VA who didn't previously qualify for treatment because the had no service related disability. They will crush the already swamped system.
Oh hell yes BigDog!!!! The VA facility in Huntington, WV, I won't call it a hospital, did their damndest to kill my dad. About 8 or 9 times. That was when they wasn't trying to cut his foot off for a shattered ankle. Only good thing about it was they did give you pain meds.... lots of pain meds. I think that was why he liked it. Wouldn't go anywhere else.
One example: He took high blood pressure meds. Lisono-something-or-nother. 20 mg. They gave him a script, filled it, and when got home and took it, 20 minutes later he passed out on the floor. Mom called me in a panic after calling 911.
I got there before the ambulance, me and the next door neighbor picked him up, he was alive and somewhat aware, and put his 240 pound ass on the couch. Ambulance showed up, asked me what meds he was on, I handed them the pill bottles cause I can't pronounce half of them, and the EMT asked me why he was taking 200 mg of Lisono-something-or-other.

That is the VA for you.

As far as I am concerned they should give the vets free care at regular hospitals and send all the dummies to VA. The country would be better off.