Posted on 05/16/2014 7:44:20 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
May 16, 2014 5:40 pm Veterans scandal risks engulfing Obama By Geoff Dyer in Washington ©AFP Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its healthcare reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is facing mounting evidence that some of the hospitals it runs have been keeping two sets of books to make it look as if they were reducing waiting times to see a doctor.
More damning, the department is investigating the claims of a whistleblower doctor in Arizona that dozens of patients at one hospital died while they were languishing on a hidden waiting list without ever being given an appointment. Richard Griffin, the department’s acting inspector general, admitted on Thursday that its review could lead to criminal charges. In the first political casualty of the scandal, Robert Petzel, the department’s undersecretary for heath, resigned on Friday.
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sounds like they are taking direction from the UK “National Health System”....worse to come.
I believe that a large part of the problem is the culture of the mid levels of management inside the VA, thanks to union and civil service rules, it is effectively impossible to fire anyone. I was listening to C-span on the radio and caught one of the Veterans organizations telling the story of someone proven incompetent, still being paid for three years after being removed from a position of responsibility. Untill several bureaucrats are shitcanned (fired for cause with loss of pension, or some clear equivalent to court marshal) in under six months things will not change.
Right on Sarge! This clown is a Chicago politician living a lie that will never be exposed because the corrupt socialist media’s role would be revealed if the truth were ever to be known.
Lists. Treatment withheld. Death panels, anyone? Uncle $OCIALI$M wants you…dead. You've outlived your usefulness. You're a net negative. $ubmit to the proper authorities.
Veterans share personal experiences at Phoenix VA
By Marty Callaghan - May 14, 2014
http://www.legion.org/veteranshealthcare/222304/veterans-share-personal-experiences-phoenix-va
Only if the MSM decides to talk about it, which they won’t.
The left doesn’t like the military anyway. This isn’t going to make any difference to them. And our fine representatives in corrupt DC probably all know about it but would rather spend the money buying votes from illegals via Medicaid.
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