VA leaves deceased veterans to rot in morgue

Conservative Daily ^ | 5/26/2014 | Conservative Daily

[RipSawyer]

“obamacare will make the VA look like th Mayo Clinic”
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Without a doubt, medical care will exist in name only. Anyone who has ever thought for one second that the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” had anything to do with patient protection or care of any kind, affordable or otherwise, was simply not cognizant of reality. That name came from the depths of depravity where freedom is slavery etc. This statement is NOT a “matter of opinion”, it is simply an observation like noting the time of the sunrise.

[ducks1944]

Because they died in VA Hospital more than likely. They knew there name at one time but dumb bunnies never kept tract of it in morgue.

[don-o]

ping 2 to same story

Are FReepers aware of the program “No Vet Dies Alone”?

[Cato in PA]

Or better yet, the Ministry of Truth.

Aren’t you excited about the Ministry of Plenty having control over access to healthcare?

[cva66snipe]

Where were the families? Granted some Vets may have outlive family or had none. The new one we got in 2011 out at John Sevier looked like they were active. Dad was one of the first 50 or so buried there I think and there are a lot more graves now. I think they average two or three burials a day which is busy.

As far as I know outside of private organizations vets do not get a free service. The coffin, vault, and funeral home service are family or vets responsibility. You have to show the funeral home director or the cemetery supervisor proof of service usually meaning DD-214 or a VA ID card for a burial plot. It was that way in 1981 when I worked student work study out at the one on Tyson ST.

But yes there has been a decline in a lot of things including TAPS for the deceased especially MOH awarded.

[ExSoldier]

I believe it 1000%. Moreover, I'll bet they also find along with those bodies, boxes and boxes of absentee military ballots never gathered from overseas bases or ships when the RATs held the White House in 1996, 2000 & 2012.

[rdl6989]

Believe it.

[cherokee1]

As you note-—there must be another part to this story. I’m guessing the bodies in LA County morgue aren’t even vets unless they happen to have died on the street. Having helped bury several old War Horses in my own family I’ve seen how the system is supposed to work. When a Vet dies in a Vet Hospital the body is turned over to a private contractor who cleans, dresses, boxes the body for burial/cremation. Families, if known, are given a chance to upgrade the trappings and/or provide for a private plot or burial at sea. If the Vet is indigent the same contractor sucks up any difference and handles the burial in a gummint cemetery. There is absolutely no way that a known Vet should wind up in a county morgue out of custody of a burial facility. Guess I gotta throw the BS flag on most of the story without hearing the details.

[John S Mosby]

When one studies the russian revolution(the bolshevik one)one finds that the military was a target group— to get them to mutiny and provide their arms and ammo to the bolshies. And they did, killing their officers.

Now, this is more sophisticated— to get all federal agencies armed and able to act as an internal armed federal police answerable only to the Executive. In so doing, discouraging quality patriots to join our military, they have then degraded the military and upgraded the gestapo, or staatspolizei. This is chilling. We must fight it, totally.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

From an Internet source:
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union, representing 670,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia. AFGE's National Veterans Affairs Council represents 210,000 employees within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Has anyone asked AFGE leadership to resign?

Imagine Obamacare under total control of the AFGE or SEIU.

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING analysis, John S Mosby. Thanks. BTTT!

[metmom]

I hope this isn’t true. I am finding this difficult to believe.

Government work.

I don't doubt it for a minute.

With our government's track record on how it treats its vets, I don't doubt anything, no matter how heinous.

[metmom]

Goes to prove that the government cares only about whether or not you paid your taxes.

We owed on our federal taxes so I wrote that check and mailed it in.

I found out just how fast the federal government can really work when it wants to.

That check was cashed so fast that it made my head spin. It was like the next day, the day the mail got there.

It was faster than any other bill I pay.

Yup, they can do it if and when they really want to.

[Grampa Dave]

"All across the United States, employees in VA hospitals are accused of cooking the books and altering medical records to make the hospitals appear to be better than they actually were. Meanwhile, our military veterans were forced to languish in endless waiting lists, many of whom died while waiting to see a doctor for the first time."

The VA hospitals are the role models for Obama Care.

[infowarrior]

I hope the line ups at the walls are televised. I am sure Matthews will feel a tingle running down his leg instead of up when it is his turn.

It would be a 'trickle' rather than a 'tingle' (or more likely, a full-fledged stream, if you know what I mean...)

the infowarrior

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

‘It would be a ‘trickle’ rather than a ‘tingle’ (or more likely, a full-fledged stream, if you know what I mean...)’
My bad. You are exactly right. Into each life a little rain must fall. Something to look forward to.;)