V A ping.
I get excellent care at the VA. The politicians only seem interested in using this to continue the endless blame game.
Someone needs to step up and make sure the Vets who are not receiving the care/or are on waiting lists have access to what I get.
I have little or no hope that will occur....the idiots in Washington will make it an election year talking point..and forget it until its politically advantageous for on or the other side to make it an issue.
I don’t know why this isn’t conspiracy to defraud the gov’t. (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
You can’t tell me the various admins of one region didn’t discuss among themselves the ways to achieve their bonuses.
6 mos ago my Dad called daily for 8 weeks to get an appt. With a pcp to get a referral to the eye doctor. (Army, Phillipines, kaboom, blind in one eye).
Had to call his Congresscritter. They called back the next day.
VA pimg.
Wish they would have listed the hospitals.
Oh yes something will happen. The guilty will get promoted. . . .
The VA ..........Poster child and advertisment for crap care
one topic that is never mentioned - a comparison of number of patients seen by a doctor each hour. I have some insight that the number may be as little as half of the number in private medicine.
It doesn’t mean that 40% are not manipulating. Just means they were able to catch 60%.
And the other 36% haven’t been uncovered just yet.
There isn’t a single government agency that isn’t rife with corruption and fraud. Not ONE.
The only cure will be another civil war. Just hope I’m still alive to take part in it.
Call the telephone number to the VA in Mobile, Alabama and see if you can get anyone to answer. They usually don’t.
My suggestions would be for the Patient Advocate to have guidelines to recommend actions, including firing of employees, when complaints are filed, to hire ONLY VETS to fill the administrative positions, and to do away with bonus pay.
It isn’t the doctors and nurses being complained about....it is the OTHER positions.
Who is benefitting from manipulating the lists? I know that bonuses, promotions, and recognition are passed all ‘round management and staff for making the books look good, but what about among the patients themselves? Are “easy” patients being taken over more difficult cases? Are patients being encouraged to pay some sort of “fee” to receive treatment? Do some patients have the “pull” to get on lists no matter who may be ahead of them?
All of that?
For the guy at the top, there is no substitute for actually getting out of the office, visiting the hospitals, and talking with the patients every once in a while. Just doing that would have immediately shown him that the reports he was getting did not correspond with reality.