Abandoned at Home: A Live VICE News Special Event (Trailer)

We will be holding a live Q&A immediately afterwards with the veterans featured in the documentary and the team that put the film together. We'll also be taking questions from YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram followers via the hashtag #VAatHome.

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[murphysmuskets]

Behold the future of all health care in the United States!

[playingod]

This makes me want to cry, especially when it said at the end that nothing more could be done:(

[EyJoBeats]

Same thing in Canada with free health care they left me healing by myself with a labrum tear lost everything my job and car its been 3 years n a half, it took me 2 years to see a surgeon.
I kept saying how worst i am getting because of none surgical treatment and its like i'm talking to a wall he still doesn't want to operate me, now i have neck problems and pain developed a cervical hernie i'm having lower back pain hurts when i sit down into my butt and half of my back up to my neck, each spinal bone section is sensible to the touch and everytime i try to move my arm and shoulder for stupid small stuff it hurts in my tricep, bicep, armpit neck and my upper back, and now waiting for a call from the hospital to see a doctor for my neck and back i'm pretty i have developed more hernies in my back too because they waited so long and never did anything letting me self heal with my shoulder constantly pulling down straining my upper back and neck with it by the time i see the doctor and get a scan who knows what else i will develop.

[omarzuniga]

It sucks seeing these men who served us over seas in pain. America needs to get their shit together. Starting off with the people who gave us freedom the soldiers.

[hudsonkiyonaga]

Ahhhh, the joys of living in canada.

[PowerWordFace]

yeh, I feel this guys pain. twice I have been to the VA and waited so long, it closed. I was the only one in the waiting room.

[andrewsimpson]

have got to see this...I have heard the rumors that these men and women are getting forgotten when they come home but dam I could never imagine

[GrimrDirge]

This is what socialized medicine looks like. "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

[WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

I had to wait 10 years for even an X-ray. First deployment in '03, didn't get it done til after the last deployment in '11. Nowadays I just deal with it on my own dime, and go from there.

[yermommy]

If you use the VA "hospital, " then yes, you will wait 3 months for a doctor. If you had bought private healthcare with that nice sign-on bonus, you wouldn't be waiting more than a week to be seen.

[airsofttexas]

goodness, almost every comment on this video is political. Can we focus on the real issue, veterans are needing help and us as a country are making it difficult for them to get it. No politics, just people need help and we should give it to them

[socalfrijolito]

At least the young generation of today has the ability to run across these Vet stories to better make a decision when recruiters try and nab them at their high school or local mall. 

[Hamadoman]

VICE can not cover the atrocities of Israeli soldiers in Gaza, why?

[SasapessoS]

Once Abdullah Azzam, founder of al Qaeda said that he pitied killing American soldiers, he said it is the rich infidels they are fighting against not the ordinary wage people. Unfortunately al Qaeda turned to be a disappointment and started killing the innocent.

[funnydavid]

Most of the comments here depress me because something that is supposed to generate nice topical and poignant discussion quickly devolves into name calling and political flag waving . For all those veterans out there I would like to say thank you for your service.

[ZotPod]

Go to taiwan and do a health check there, they are fast and it's cheap even for a foreigner there on vacation

[yatyasusmc]

And thats why i dropped the VA and went to real doctors.

[BeingRising]

Here in Virginia our Hospitals treat our veterans like trash.

[iSquishMoths]

Do people honestly give a fuck about soldiers lol? It isn't conscription anymore, it's pure choice.

[irrelevantjoker]

Pretty much my feelings as well fucked by the system....