Veteran Kills Himself in Parking Lot of V.A. Hospital on Long Island

Slimes ^ | 8/24/2016 | Kristina Rebelo

[combat_boots]

A 76-year-old veteran committed suicide on Sunday in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Long Island, where he had been a patient, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.

Peter A. Kaisen, of Islip, was pronounced dead after he shot himself outside Building 92, the nursing home at the medical center.

The hospital is part of the Veterans Affairs medical system, the nation’s largest integrated health care organization, which has been under scrutiny since 2014, when the department confirmed that numerous patients had died awaiting treatment at a V.A. hospital in Phoenix. Officials there had tried to cover up long waiting times for 1,700 veterans seeking medical care. A study released by the Government Accountability Office in April indicated that the system had yet to fix its scheduling problems.

Why Mr. Kaisen decided to end his life was not immediately known, but two people connected to the hospital who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his death said that he had been frustrated that he was unable to see an emergency-room physician for reasons related to his mental health. “He went to the E.R. and was denied service,” one of the people, who currently works at the hospital, said. “And then he went to his car and shot himself.”

[2banana]

Plenty of money for free health care for illegals and muslim “refugees”

Not so much for combat veterns...

[DoughtyOne]

Sadly, help was on the way...


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[beethovenfan]

....as Trump was saying.....

[HarleyLady27]

OH MY GOSH...how horribly sad...this breaks my heart...

What this nation has become to let someone who has fought for our freedoms and our right to speak, and for this poor man to end it this way...

Mr. Trump, give him ‘one hell of a funeral’ and have every vet there you can find!!!

[Patriot Babe]

This is madness. May he Rest In Peace. Yet an illegal can get medical care right away. This has pissed me off.

[mrsmith]

Awful.
I get great service from the VA myself.

[ichabod1]

22 veterans kill themselves every day. Whites are doing themselves in at a fever clip, especially downwardly mobile middle age white men.

[magna carta]

it is a heartbreaker indeed. How the Mighty are fallen. The Globalists have so trashed our country.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s too bad that this mentally unstable person had this sad outcome.

BUT - if your mission is to paint the VA system with a broad brush, please message me. I have had nothing but stellar care through my VA.

[combat_boots]

Yup.

I knew one of the many 22Vets

http://22vets.com/

[Sasparilla]

Obama’s VA legacy grows. So sorry for this Vet.

[JBW1949]

I haven’t had to use the VA yet myself...I hope I never have to...Not only because of their recent history, but also because a whole lot of recent conflict vets are young and need the help more than I do....

I would love to see trump, as president, clean up the whole Veterans Affairs Dept....

[combat_boots]

It isn’t my mission.

But the mission of the VA failed this man right there on the spot.

He knew enough to know to go there.

The man I knew didn’t. He left something on the battlefield that he couldn’t get back.

[SkyDancer]

And millions for art.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Bastards. Putting illegal alien invaders and Muzzie foreigners ahead of Americans. Bastards.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Agreed. Just checking. :)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Once spent 32 hours in a V.A. emergency room and never saw a physician.

[Bob]

I get great service from the VA myself.

Amen to that -- I could not have hoped for any better care than I've gotten, especially over the past year. I'm blessed to have VA Palo Alto there for me.

[dragnet2]

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