Posted on 02/18/2024 9:26:27 PM PST by Red Badger
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Democrats constantly crow about their faith in “the right to choose.” But this applies to little beyond abortion.
Any woman who chooses to buy a gun or send her child to a charter school should expect “pro-choice” Democrats to stand in her way.
Democrats crave control and uniformity, even when it comes to medical care for America’s veterans. Democrats want vets in the Department of Veterans Affairs, not getting cured in the private sector.
Obama–Biden’s VA waitlist scandal found veterans dying before they could see their doctors. Donald J. Trump promised to fix this lethal mess. And he did.
President Trump signed the Mission Act on June 6, 2018. It holds that if the VA cannot book a primary medical appointment “within 20 days of the date of the request” by a veteran, or 28 days for specialty care, then that vet may seek therapy outside the VA, and the VA will foot the bill.
Trump opened an Office of Community Care to oversee the program, promoted it via a dedicated website (the now defunct MissionAct.VA.gov), and focused on reducing the pile of old cases that awaited adjudication.
This was just too much freedom and choice for President Joe Biden and his comrades. Soon after taking power, they started to lasso vets and haul them back into the VA Corral.
In October 2021, Team Biden padlocked the Office of Community Care and replaced it with a “new integrated access and care coordination model.” How appetizing!
The pro-Mission Act website dropped off the VA’s front page. Those who could track down the link found it connected to a “Choose VA” page that sang the praises of government-sector veterans’ care.
While these two steps backward were inconvenient, Biden’s reversal of Trump’s progress on improving the case backlog truly hurt veterans. The pertinent statistics are jarring.
The VA’s relevant database is a bubbling, jet-filled hot tub for public-policy geeks. Its Monday Morning Workload Reports indicate the level of paperwork facing VA benefits bureaucrats as they sit down at their desks and begin each week.
According to these figures, the day after Trump began his presidency, the Jan. 21, 2017 report found the VA with a backlog of 91,742 claims nationwide that had languished without conclusion for more than 125 days.
By Jan. 18, 2020, two days before Trump’s third anniversary as president, the equivalent figure was 68,911—down 24.9%.
Three days after Joe Biden took office, the Jan. 23, 2021, MMWR backlog was 211,443, reflecting the devastating effects of COVID-19, for which Trump and Biden are blameless. (China’s Xi Jinping is as culpable as anyone.) The Jan. 20, 2024, data, exactly three years into Biden’s presidency, reflect a backlog of 406,864 claims—up 92.4%.
In short, Trump spent three years cutting the VA’s case backlog by one quarter. Biden spent as much time nearly doubling it.
Evidently, this is how Joe “Nice Guy” Biden proves to be the adult in the room who returned everything to normal.
The VA also is ignoring the 20-day primary/28-day specialty care wait time before vets can seek community care. Rather than start the clock when the veteran makes the request, as the Mission Act requires, VA schedulers may begin each countdown whenever they want. This traps vets on the VA plantation and limits their access to private-sector options.
Now, to abuse America’s beloved veterans even further, the VA spent $63.6 million in Fiscal Year 2022 to process illegal-alien health claims, even as the medical paperwork of U.S. citizens gathered dust.
“To see millions of taxpayer dollars taken from our veterans to instead incentivize and care for an invasion of illegal aliens is a giant slap in the face to America and to the military community,” retired U.S. Marine Chad Robichaux told the New York Post’s Ryan King.
The founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a veteran-aid group, added: “Every time we think this administration has reached a grotesque low, they dig deeper.”
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
Illegal aliens can’t join the military. They must have green cards.
Ping for later.
This article is non-factual, at least for my red state region.
Being in the VA health care system, I find none of this believable. For example if I send the VA heath care team a complaint a nurse will call in a day or two. She will then set up an appointment with a civilian clinic. Typically the time waiting is the clinic’s backlog, not the VA’s.
In January 2024 I applied for dental care and was in a civilian dentist’s office within two days. There is no co-pay, the VA will pay for everything.
I carry a very expensive BC&BS policy and medicare. I used to go to a civilian clinic for all primary care. They were a bunch of quacks. Three years ago I went to the VA and they sent me to numerous specialists, had a major operation and I am now healthier than I’ve been in years.
Had I stayed with the civilian primary care I’d be in a wheel chair now with declining health or dead. The civilian primary care insisted on giving me the covid shots, that’s when enough was enough and I told them to F’off. I refused the shots and went to the VA that never tried to force the death shots on anyone. They don’t even offer them anymore.
I’m keeping the civilian insurance in case the VA health does go south again. But for now VA is the best health care for me.
This article is bullshit.
Regarding claims, they do take several months as medical testing and in person evaluations by claims administrators need to be set up. The adjudication process is time consuming as it’s a first come first served basis.
This is a good example of how Marxist Dems control the population. Obozo/Biden have streamlined the operation.
This article is non-factual, at least for my red state region.
Being in the VA health care system, I find none of this believable. For example if I send the VA heath care team a complaint a nurse will call in a day or two. She will then set up an appointment with a civilian clinic. Typically the time waiting is the clinic’s backlog, not the VA’s.
In January 2024 I applied for dental care and was in a civilian dentist’s office within two days. There is no co-pay, the VA will pay for everything.
I carry a very expensive BC&BS policy and medicare. I used to go to a civilian clinic for all primary care. They were a bunch of quacks. Three years ago I went to the VA and they sent me to numerous specialists, had a major operation and I am now healthier than I’ve been in years.
Had I stayed with the civilian primary care I’d be in a wheel chair now with declining health or dead. The civilian primary care insisted on giving me the covid shots, that’s when enough was enough and I told them to F’off. I refused the shots and went to the VA that never tried to force the death shots on anyone. They don’t even offer them anymore.
I’m keeping the civilian insurance in case the VA health does go south again. But for now VA is the best health care for me.
This article is bullshit.
Regarding claims, they do take several months as medical testing and in person evaluations by claims administrators need to be set up. The adjudication process is time consuming as it’s a first come first served basis.
I think part of Tump’s changes are still in place.
Twice in recent months an older brother of mine got emergency medical treatment at a hospital that is much closer to him than the VA facility he normally goes to. He got no bill, the VA covered it.
Not all VA clinics are created equal.
Though ours in Pensacola is excellent, I know that ones in blue states can be crap.
I use OPTUM, a subsidiary of United Healthcare, as they have contracts with the VA to provide healthcare when needed.
I also have Medicare A & B just in case..................
Here’s a clue...
Doc: “A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.” Wyatt: “What does he need?” Doc: “Revenge.” Wyatt: “For what?” Doc: “Bein’ born.”
Desperate recruiters will lie, cheat and steal to get a warm body in boot camp.................
It happened during the Iraq Surge. Vetting was no the priority.
Sorry to hear that you’re having trouble getting your disability rating. Don’t know if you are aware, but...
If you belong to one of the bigger veteran groups (American Legion, VFW, VVA, etc) you can call them and ask for a National Service Officer to work your case.
A good VSO can force the VA claims office to stop dragging their feet.
Thats been my experience to I’m quite happy with the care I have received from the VA for over 25 years or so...
I have a telecom this Thursday. Maybe I should head south and come back across with a “migrant” group. 🤔
The answer is that there are NO normal or rational Democrat voters!
Those who vote Democrat lack the ability (brain power) to use reason, logic and common sense to decide the proper (that is to say, LEGAL AND MORAL!) course of action, and/or they are paid to vote Democrat!
As for rich Democrats (Soros, Zuckerberg, Gates, et al), I think they are imitating the evil Ernst Stavro Bloefeld - they are ALL IN for screwing up the world and playing the domination game.
IOW, their hobby (life’s work?) is putting sand in the gears/gas tanks of civilization just to see how much chaos, crime, carnage, corruption, destruction, disruption, disease and disharmony they CAN cause!
And, RIOTS!
What we conservatives desperately need is a consortium of VERY RICH conservatives willing to help Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters take on and DEFEAT these evil Bloefeld wannabes!
Once again, veteran’s are denied their right to expedited health care, yet, illegal immigrant criminals get unfettered access to medical care. Where’s the justice?
Count me as one of the people that were awakened to W.
SPJNK
“Though ours in Pensacola is excellent, I know that ones in blue states can be crap.”
I find that believable. The clinic I go to I ask just about each one I come in contact with, and they are all local hires. The point being is if they are local, they have the same red state values we all do up here.
Now take a crap blue state with federal employees that are there just holding their union card and not caring at all, and yes health care there will suck.
That seems like the best alternative today, unfortunately. I wish you the best with your telecom.
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