Posted on 05/26/2014 6:59:59 PM PDT by Captain7seas
For the past few weeks, the Obama administration has been the focus of attention as allegations of widespread corruption within the Department of Veterans Affairs continue to surface.
All across the United States, employees in VA hospitals are accused of cooking the books and altering medical records to make the hospitals appear to be better than they actually were. Meanwhile, our military veterans were forced to languish in endless waiting lists, many of whom died while waiting to see a doctor for the first time.
President Obama was briefed on this back in 2008 and even though he pledged that reforming the VA would be one of the main focuses of his presidency, nothing was ever done to fix these problems. In the past week, the VA has approved veterans using private medical facilities in situations with exceptionally long VA backlogs, a crushing blow to those who support government-run healthcare.
These are baby-steps forward and there is nothing that can be done to bring back those who perished as a direct result from this scandal. But the VA seems to be moving in the right direction. That is, until I learned of another disgusting 'scandal' that made me absolutely sick to my stomach.
Today is Memorial Day. This is the day where we all celebrate the sacrifices made by so many veterans who fought and died to protect our way of life. While it is certainly nice to thank active duty military personnel or veterans for their service, this day is specifically devoted to honoring those who sacrificed themselves for the preservation of this great country.
A story coming out of California alleges that the VA left dozens of deceased veterans to rot in the county morgue for over a year without them ever receiving a burial. Many of these deceased veterans had been in the morgue so long that County officials didnt know their names and were racing to find ways to identify them. For the past year and a half, there have been more than SIXTY deceased veterans who were left to rot at the LA County Morgue.
“obamacare will make the VA look like th Mayo Clinic”
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Without a doubt, medical care will exist in name only. Anyone who has ever thought for one second that the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” had anything to do with patient protection or care of any kind, affordable or otherwise, was simply not cognizant of reality. That name came from the depths of depravity where freedom is slavery etc. This statement is NOT a “matter of opinion”, it is simply an observation like noting the time of the sunrise.
Because they died in VA Hospital more than likely. They knew there name at one time but dumb bunnies never kept tract of it in morgue.
ping 2 to same story
Are FReepers aware of the program “No Vet Dies Alone”?
Or better yet, the Ministry of Truth.
Aren’t you excited about the Ministry of Plenty having control over access to healthcare?
As far as I know outside of private organizations vets do not get a free service. The coffin, vault, and funeral home service are family or vets responsibility. You have to show the funeral home director or the cemetery supervisor proof of service usually meaning DD-214 or a VA ID card for a burial plot. It was that way in 1981 when I worked student work study out at the one on Tyson ST.
But yes there has been a decline in a lot of things including TAPS for the deceased especially MOH awarded.
Believe it.
As you note-—there must be another part to this story. I’m guessing the bodies in LA County morgue aren’t even vets unless they happen to have died on the street. Having helped bury several old War Horses in my own family I’ve seen how the system is supposed to work. When a Vet dies in a Vet Hospital the body is turned over to a private contractor who cleans, dresses, boxes the body for burial/cremation. Families, if known, are given a chance to upgrade the trappings and/or provide for a private plot or burial at sea. If the Vet is indigent the same contractor sucks up any difference and handles the burial in a gummint cemetery. There is absolutely no way that a known Vet should wind up in a county morgue out of custody of a burial facility. Guess I gotta throw the BS flag on most of the story without hearing the details.
When one studies the russian revolution(the bolshevik one)one finds that the military was a target group— to get them to mutiny and provide their arms and ammo to the bolshies. And they did, killing their officers.
Now, this is more sophisticated— to get all federal agencies armed and able to act as an internal armed federal police answerable only to the Executive. In so doing, discouraging quality patriots to join our military, they have then degraded the military and upgraded the gestapo, or staatspolizei. This is chilling. We must fight it, totally.
Has anyone asked AFGE leadership to resign?
Imagine Obamacare under total control of the AFGE or SEIU.
OUTSTANDING analysis, John S Mosby. Thanks. BTTT!
Government work.
I don't doubt it for a minute.
With our government's track record on how it treats its vets, I don't doubt anything, no matter how heinous.
We owed on our federal taxes so I wrote that check and mailed it in.
I found out just how fast the federal government can really work when it wants to.
That check was cashed so fast that it made my head spin. It was like the next day, the day the mail got there.
It was faster than any other bill I pay.
Yup, they can do it if and when they really want to.
The VA hospitals are the role models for Obama Care.
It would be a 'trickle' rather than a 'tingle' (or more likely, a full-fledged stream, if you know what I mean...)
the infowarrior
‘It would be a ‘trickle’ rather than a ‘tingle’ (or more likely, a full-fledged stream, if you know what I mean...)’
My bad. You are exactly right. Into each life a little rain must fall. Something to look forward to.;)
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