Gee, I wonder how many clean mattresses that necklace could have bought.
Posted on 05/21/2014 7:43:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
In Maine, Vets are complaining about the new policy of prescribing drugs first, and then maybe test. Great for the drug companies, not so good for the Vets.
Congress? Congress?
While Congress may have some oversight, these Federal Institutions are administered by the EXECUTIVE.
DON’T SHIFT THE BLAME FROM THE PRICKS WHO WERE IN CHARGE.
hang them all . .
Let’s just take the eighty billion that the VA gets...shut down the operation...and use the funding to buy each qualified vet a GS-health insurance policy. The rest of the stuff the VA does is null and worthless. We could probably save money and hassle by letting the vets use local medical care of a normal variety. If they aren’t happy...they can shop around to find another doctor or clinic. I don’t see GS workers grumbling about their packaged care.
Gee, I wonder how many clean mattresses that necklace could have bought.
If government’s veterans hospitals are doing the same thing how high up in the Obama Admin are the directions coming from
This has always been about maintaining another govt bureaucracy, where and when the private sector medical solutions were the answer.
THAT “necklace” looks like a jumbled mess of my grandmother’s old jewelry
It almost makes it look as if the government doesn’t even know how to run a healthcare program efficiently and effectively!
Meanwhile the SNAP program continues to grow.
Real threats to our way of life, and real threats to our lives are right in our faces, and they’re falling over themselves to show how tolerant they are of Sodomites and how compassionate they are for Illegals. A pox on them all for feigning outrage when they’re supposed to be the watchdogs of society.
Like somebody dropped a powerful magnet on a metalshop floor.
Here’s a bold idea....
Privatize the whole VA....
Congress would scream like howler monkeys...
Sell off it’s assets and give our veterans the care they earned....
It possibly can’t be more expensive to fund their premiums than it costs now...to run a piss poor excuse for a death panel....
Ummmm.....Don......the President is the head of The Executive Branch of our government. That’s the branch of government the VA falls under. Barack Obama is The President of The United States of America. We citizens voted to put him in charge of The Executive Branch. Obama is not doing his job. He has had 170 golf days since he took office. He seems to have plenty of time for fundraising and playing golf. He just doesn’t have time to do his job.
Obama on TV at the moment, saying how hard he’s been working to keep the VA working for Vets. Big review scheduled, and then the big guy will act.
That necklace looks like the old cookie tin my grandmother put the broken stuff in and let grand daughters play dress up with. Looks like the contents of that tin just got dumped out on the floor. Right before we set about untangling the best pieces to go with our old blanket wedding dresses and evening gowns!
I know that this subject is getting a lot of attention do to the recent gross negligence in the treatment of our country’s veterans, however this is nothing new.
The VA has always been and will continue to be a completely inept bureaucratic nightmare as long as you have folks there they don’t give a crap about anything except their federal pension.
I’m sure that we could find enough qualified men and women veterans, civilians need not apply, who would be more than capable of managing the system. I’m not necessarily talking about providing the health care, even though there are plenty of qualified nurse and doctors, but speaking more to the bureaucratic wasteland that is responsible for processing the paperwork required by all who apply to the system.
Although I'm a veteran I will never get the benefits I thought I would, as most services are now means tested. If the system were to be reformed, I suggest that the laws change so that veterans will never receive less service than was available when they served. Guys like me never considered that the benefits we were promised could ever be reduced or diluted. Back then, we had a blind faith in our government. Now, to anything the government says, I would say, "Oh, yeah? Prove it."
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