Posted on 08/19/2014 8:02:59 AM PDT by Freeport
In 2010, the Veterans Administration rolled out a new online application that promised the nation’s veterans a quick, easy way to access one of the chief benefits of military service: enrollment in the VA’s vast network of hospitals and health care facilities.
Veterans across the country responded.
In fact, the online system did the opposite of what it promised, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found. Instead of making it easier and faster to apply for benefits, the online system sent some veterans who used it into administrative limbo where their applications received no action, delaying their access to health care.
By July 2012, the backlog of veterans whose applications were in so-called pending status had grown to 848,699, according to an internal VA analysis. VA’s backlog of pending health care applications had festered for more than a decade, and the new online applications made the problem worse.
As part of that review, a program analyst based in Atlanta discovered a troubling revelation: As many as 47,786 veterans whose applications languished in the pending application pool had died, according to the VA’s own records of deceased servicemen and women. Had any of them died because they failed to gain access to VA health care, the analyst wondered?
(Excerpt) Read more at myajc.com ...
The VA is the perfect example of how socialized medicine works.
I’m not paying 99¢ for the privilege of reading that paper.
“Boil these managers in oil!”
At least let’s see a bunch of them go to jail and loose every nickel of pension and HC benefits. I’d like to see some serious retribution for their murderous acts.
Hey, don’t send any feds in to investigate. Send them to ferguson instead.
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