You know Harry, I used to feel sorta the same way towards the VA. Why should I accept VA health care when I have a decent job and pretty good healthcare. It was many years later that I was told I was completely wrong because the VA get funded partially by the amount of Veterans in the VA system. Supposedly I was cheating Veterans out of healthcare because I wasn't in the VA system. That was corrected after getting prostate cancer from exposure to Agent Orange when I was in Vietnam and I now take anything and everything I can from the VA. I no longer look at it as a hand out.