Yeah I don't know how you would even come up with criteria for this sort of welfare fraud. Especially since the military is a magnet for personality disorders that are generally exacerbated by service, making mental health evaluation a huge minefield (lol) of linked conditions.
But yeah even if you aren't trying to extract maximum benefits, getting help from the VA can require gaming the system, which doesn't help the clarity of the problem either. The VA is often used as an argument against single payer healthcare, but that's only valid because our government would set up something equally mired in bureaucracy as the VA. That said though, a few weeks ago I thought I had started having near constant panic attacks again, but they wouldn't go away with my usual coping strategies (exercise, mysticism/magic type exercises etc.) and it occurred to me that I was probably instead having some sort of heart problem, so I went to the closest ER, and it turned out to be pericarditis rather than a heart attack or congestive heart failure, which was nice. The VA is covering it, which is amazing (they are essentially my healthcare coverage but you typically have to go to them) but I had to do all sorts of detective work to even figure out who to call about that, so it wasn't exactly hassle free. Also surprisingly smooth though, so whatever.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
