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Report: One-third of vets on pending medical care list already dead
The Hill ^ | 07/13/15 | Martin Matishak

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Texas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: deadvets; deathpanels; medical; medicalcare; obamacare; palinwasright; va; vamedical; vascandal; vascandals; veterans; veteransaffairs; vets

1 posted on 07/14/2015 6:02:05 AM PDT by george76
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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.

When the VAD hears about this, they're gonna move those vets up the list!

2 posted on 07/14/2015 6:03:47 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: george76
<Best Mr Burns voice>Excellent</Best Mr Burns Voice>

Major cost savings...

3 posted on 07/14/2015 6:04:56 AM PDT by null and void (We've always been at war with Iceageia!)
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To: null and void

Under estimated.


4 posted on 07/14/2015 6:12:51 AM PDT by exnavy (Gun control is two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: george76

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?


5 posted on 07/14/2015 6:16:08 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: george76

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


6 posted on 07/14/2015 6:19:17 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Paulie
Doesn’t the Congress do/care about ANYTHING?

Yes. Their own salaries, pensions and health care.

7 posted on 07/14/2015 6:29:02 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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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.


8 posted on 07/14/2015 6:31:26 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Paulie
Doesn’t the Congress do/care about ANYTHING?

Yes.

They care very much about their NSA files and staying out of prison.

Well, that and getting re-elected.

9 posted on 07/14/2015 6:31:40 AM PDT by null and void (We've always been at war with Iceageia!)
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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.


10 posted on 07/14/2015 6:57:39 AM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.)
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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!”


11 posted on 07/14/2015 7:12:37 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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If these Veterans were Illegal Immigrants, no one would be “madder” than Barry.

This is a disgrace.


12 posted on 07/14/2015 8:39:04 AM PDT by machogirl
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To: george76

This is obamacare.
You die waiting for help just like in England and Canada and other socialist countries.


13 posted on 07/14/2015 8:55:09 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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At least they’re not selling body parts - yet, AFAIK.


14 posted on 07/14/2015 2:58:49 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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Report: One-third of vets on pending medical care list already dead

Of course. Most vets vote Republican.

15 posted on 08/30/2015 12:20:54 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald)
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To: blueunicorn6

That’s good.


16 posted on 08/30/2015 12:28:09 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is useless, and it makes you complicit.)
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To: george76

Paging Mr. Trump....paging Mr. Donald Trump....please pickup the white courtesy phone. ....


17 posted on 08/30/2015 12:30:22 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is useless, and it makes you complicit.)
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perpetuating a bureaucratic culture that redefines incompetence

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3330958/posts


18 posted on 08/30/2015 4:08:58 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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