Posted on 02/20/2017 12:21:18 PM PST by Puppage
WEST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced Monday morning that contracts have been requested from vendors to provide every room at VA hospitals in Connecticut with Wi-Fi access, after a News 8 exclusive report in 2016.
At a news conference Monday, Blumenthal said that every veteran staying at a VA facility should feel connected to the world around them.
Every veteran who goes to this facility for patient care deserves this connection to the outside world. It’s just as important as those drugs and doctors are to their recovery.
According to Senator Blumenthal, half a million in federal dollars will be used to make this Wi-Fi access happen across the state. The Democrat is a member of the Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee.
They’ll still have to wait two weeks for a doctor to come around to their room, but at least they’ll have something to do while they’re waiting.
Fiddling while Rome burns
WHY...so the vets can use their phones or iPads, while waiting d=so long to be seen, that they die from lack of treatment and speedy assessments of what’s wrong ?
Blumenthal. As in Dick.
As in Stolen Valor.
The VA hospital here needs doctors.
The VA is a bureaucracy, and will waste billions on anything but doctors.
Mr. President, fire that bureaucrat.
DAMN! I didn’t have Wi-Fi when I was in the VA hospital in 1969. Where do I file my complaint?
“WHY...so the vets can use their phones or iPads, while waiting d=so long to be seen, that they die from lack of treatment and speedy assessments of what’s wrong ?”
I’ve been in what feels like a final decline, but there’s no point in going to the VA, because they won’t do a damned thing for me.
I just hope it’s not one of my youngest kids that finds me.
Pandering and showboating by a #FakeHero
Follow the money, I say. What does Blumenthal have to gain with this deal?
And Blumenthal, who lied about being in combat, should not be allowed near any of our veterans let alone being allowed to decide anything that impacts their care.
Oh, my. Prayers up for you.
“Oh, my. Prayers up for you.”
Thanks.
The only thing I mind is that I hate it when scumbag liberals are getting paid to do jobs they refuse to do.
Now they can die from neglect while watching YouTube.
I live in Ct. and so am stuck with this idiot and my snotty remark was what I'd love to yell at him. The VA needs more doctors ( good ones ) and NOT "better WiFi"; so that you and other vets, aren't left untreated, to languish and worry, as you are.
“Now they can die from neglect while watching YouTube.”
Ah, black humor. My favorite.
Notwithstanding the fact that vets die waiting for treatment, where was this senator when his party controlled all 3 houses? Is internet access even a real problem at the VA? I would not be surprised if it is but where was this guy when they had total control?
Bingo. Wonder who the *contracts* will go to? HMMMMMMMMMMMmmmm. If I had to guess, one of his more generous contributors.
Maybe Jon Lender will follow the money.
I’m sure at least 20 scumbag lawyers are working on advertisements to sue for lack of WI-FI at VA hospitals.
The ones who actually get in can surf the web while they slowly die of neglect.
Hell of a move, Bleumie!
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