Gee, I wonder how many clean mattresses that necklace could have bought.
In Maine, Vets are complaining about the new policy of prescribing drugs first, and then maybe test. Great for the drug companies, not so good for the Vets.
Congress? Congress?
While Congress may have some oversight, these Federal Institutions are administered by the EXECUTIVE.
DON’T SHIFT THE BLAME FROM THE PRICKS WHO WERE IN CHARGE.
hang them all . .
Gee, I wonder how many clean mattresses that necklace could have bought.
If government’s veterans hospitals are doing the same thing how high up in the Obama Admin are the directions coming from
This has always been about maintaining another govt bureaucracy, where and when the private sector medical solutions were the answer.
It almost makes it look as if the government doesn’t even know how to run a healthcare program efficiently and effectively!
Meanwhile the SNAP program continues to grow.
Real threats to our way of life, and real threats to our lives are right in our faces, and they’re falling over themselves to show how tolerant they are of Sodomites and how compassionate they are for Illegals. A pox on them all for feigning outrage when they’re supposed to be the watchdogs of society.
Here’s a bold idea....
Privatize the whole VA....
Congress would scream like howler monkeys...
Sell off it’s assets and give our veterans the care they earned....
It possibly can’t be more expensive to fund their premiums than it costs now...to run a piss poor excuse for a death panel....
Ummmm.....Don......the President is the head of The Executive Branch of our government. That’s the branch of government the VA falls under. Barack Obama is The President of The United States of America. We citizens voted to put him in charge of The Executive Branch. Obama is not doing his job. He has had 170 golf days since he took office. He seems to have plenty of time for fundraising and playing golf. He just doesn’t have time to do his job.
Obama on TV at the moment, saying how hard he’s been working to keep the VA working for Vets. Big review scheduled, and then the big guy will act.
I know that this subject is getting a lot of attention do to the recent gross negligence in the treatment of our country’s veterans, however this is nothing new.
The VA has always been and will continue to be a completely inept bureaucratic nightmare as long as you have folks there they don’t give a crap about anything except their federal pension.
I’m sure that we could find enough qualified men and women veterans, civilians need not apply, who would be more than capable of managing the system. I’m not necessarily talking about providing the health care, even though there are plenty of qualified nurse and doctors, but speaking more to the bureaucratic wasteland that is responsible for processing the paperwork required by all who apply to the system.
It is about time that government failure had consequences for career political appointees and for elected officials.
The whole VA medical things is a scandal.
Vets don’t have a lot of money to bribe the jerks in congress... maybe that’s the problem...
Well, maybe ‘bribe’ is too harsh a term - vets don’t have enough money to ‘donate’ to the worthy re-election of our country’s blowhards...
The VA has willfully murdered vets through denial of service and mistreatment for at least 40 years. Its not "a few facilities" at the present time as Obama claims, its the whole damned system everywhere.
So why now? What would be the motivation for a politician, known to despise the American military and its veterans, to suddenly care, to suddenly have a great awakening to VA misconduct and why has the mainstream media suddenly become so patriotic in getting behind this issue?
I see a couple of posters calling for the VA to be shut down. Obamas comments in his address today seemed to carefully insinuate that very suggestion at times. Why? Is the entire point to in fact shut down the VA to get all of those vets forced into Obamacare? Remember, this mess was originally Hillarycare. Are the same insurance companies, that were behind her and likely behind Obama, expecting some type of monetary gain in this big public/private cooperative fascist wet dream?
Is the VA not the problem Obama is trying to fix at all? Is the problem actually that too many know how the VA has operated. Has this malfeasance become so emblematic that it is one of the primary reasons people wont enroll in Obamacare? By feigning committed devotion to this VA issue is he protecting his legacy and protecting his benefactors investments?
So a "few" vets died recently and "few" more have recently been mistreated, really, "what difference does it make?" The fact is that the VA has operated as it was intended to for a long time or it wouldn't have been allowed to abuse veterans for decades...so why now?