Posted on 07/14/2015 6:02:05 AM PDT by george76
An internal Veterans Affairs Department report states that about one-third of the veterans waiting to receive medical care from the agency have already died.
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as of April, 847,822 veterans were awaiting healthcare and that of those, 238,647 were already deceased.
The report was handed over by Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA's Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta
He also sent copies to the House and Senate VA panels and to the White House.
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VA wants you to believe, by virtue of people being able to get health care elsewhere, it's not a big deal. But VA is turning away tens of thousands of veterans eligible for health care," he said. "VA is making it cumbersome, and then saying, 'See? They didn't want it anyway.'"
The leak is sure to provoke a strong reaction among Capitol Hill lawmakers still fuming over last year’s scandal over patient wait times.
A series of internal and third-party investigations found the VA medical network was rife with falsified data that may have contributed to patient deaths.
The controversy roiled the Obama administration for months and forced VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
When the VAD hears about this, they're gonna move those vets up the list!
Major cost savings...
Under estimated.
Another travesty that never should have left the media’s radar screen.
Out of sight out of mind. Doesn’t the Congress do/care about ANYTHING?
just for the record, death is the actual solution for the Social Security problem
vast numbers of obese people will never live long enough to draw social security
some will live longer but many will die young
Yes. Their own salaries, pensions and health care.
It’s as though the VA has been ordered to murder vets through sheer negligence to save the government money.
Thank God that my wife & I (both retired) do not have to set foot near a VA hospital. When we went there just to `register’ we were appalled by the crowding & the buses disgorging load after load of vets brought from the projects for whom the VA is their last resort.
Yes.
They care very much about their NSA files and staying out of prison.
Well, that and getting re-elected.
First they came for the unborn children, and i did nothing, then they came for the veteran’s and I did nothing.
We’re a nation of spineless cowards, we deserve the tyrants that rule us.
Come on everybody!
All together now!
Let’s recite the VA Executive Pledge!
“Delete, delay, deny and wait until they die to make our bonuses go high, high, high!”
If these Veterans were Illegal Immigrants, no one would be “madder” than Barry.
This is a disgrace.
This is obamacare.
You die waiting for help just like in England and Canada and other socialist countries.
At least they’re not selling body parts - yet, AFAIK.
Of course. Most vets vote Republican.
That’s good.
Paging Mr. Trump....paging Mr. Donald Trump....please pickup the white courtesy phone. ....
perpetuating a bureaucratic culture that redefines incompetence
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