Leading Senate Democrat's response to VA scandal: 'People die every day'

Examiner.com ^ | May 23, 2014 | Timothy Whiteman

[blueyon]

Responding to the ever-widening "secret death list" Veterans Affairs (VA) scandal, on of the Senate's leading liberals has not only blocked legislation aimed at fixing fundamental problems within the VA's health care system, he's also let little doubt to exactly how he feels of the accusation that scores of vets have died due to administrative cover-ups that have resulted in medical care being needlessly withheld. As reported by The Washington Free Beacon on May 22, 2014, Vermont's junior US Senator, Bernard "Bernie" Sanders, has effectively frozen in committee the Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act (VAMAA), which was aimed at giving the Secretary of Veterans Affairs sweeping power in clearing out bureaucratic dead wood.

In what many veterans reasonably take as adding insult to injury, the Green Mountain State's senator very matter-of-factly said in a CNN interview (via News Busters) earlier this month "people die every day," giving the distinct impression he was was making an attempt to downplay the 40 patients deaths earlier this month in the VA's Phoenix, Arizona facility.

[Marathoner]

At first, I thought it was Jocelyn Elders coming back with her infamous comment about “Everybody’s got to die of something”

[VerySadAmerican]

He’s right. People do die everyday. Too bad he isn’t one of them.

[lonestar]

Senate Democrats are on the warpath against the Redskins.

[mikrofon]

One despicable POS (and that’s not Promoter of Socialism) ...

[SoFloFreeper]

Where VA has taken veterans, Obamacare is leading all Americans: Kevin O'Brien

[elcid1970]

Death panels followed by extermination of “useless eaters”, like the Nazis did long before war broke out.

Reeducation camps for the ideologically recalcitrant, for later use as death camps. It’s all been done, the methods are available for study & for update. Previously it was accomplished using technology now seventy five years old.

Read Hannah Arendt’s “The Banality of Evil” for the mindset required to carry out the above. Easily obtained in large numbers in any society then, and now.

[Puppage]

'People die every day'

Yeah, especially when they don't get the care they need.

[Gay State Conservative]

Would it be wrong for me to suspect that Comrade Bernie,like Osama Obama himself,has never worn a set of dog tags?

[VTenigma]

Transplant New Yorker commie ba$tard. Elected by more transplant commies in Burlington. Single payer moron, I’m sure he would gladly be the one to tell you you’re not eligible for cancer treatment.

[TLI]

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[bgill]

Oh, well, then Bernie will be stepping up to the head of the line, right?

[itssme]

When will it be commie Bernie’s time to die? Can’t be soon enough. Evil, ugly man...so very PROUD to be a known communist in the US Senate! Who keeps voting for this POS? Other commies/socialists/marxists?

[HippyLoggerBiker]

Thank you for your reply.

My brother was a “statistic” in the VietNam war. He was just one of those people that die “every day”.

I (later joined the USMC) served with some of those other people that died “every day. Thank you for the recall of “dignity” and “due diligence”.

I always go back to this:

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

John Donne

Sincerely,
HippyLoggerBiker

[Moorings]

Initially they denied that there was any death panel in healthcare reform. When it becomes obvious to everyone that there is a death panel, their answer would be that “people die every day.”