VA, IG warn against rush of veterans into private care

Next scandal...it will take a few months for it to surface. As most scripts are 90 days. DOD MANDATED 4/14/2014 that ALL TRICARE LIFE Retired over 65 Military use Express Scripts or Base dispensary for their daily meds. Cumbersome process. 2 weeks for ES for order or reorder. Base fills what they have, but reorders come out of Pensacola, FL for our region in TN. ES will switch your DAW script for a generic. And keep switching generics for cheaper ones. Drugs such as Synthroid is a ‘small window’ drug, and the generic is crap not enough of the hormone. Result Osteoporosis and other thyroid caused issues. It is a very important hormone, much more so than HRT’s. Synthroid
http://www.rxlist.com/synthroid-drug/side-effects-interactions.htm

29 pills that interact with Thyroid
http://www.worstpills.org/public/page.cfm?op_id=420

There has got to be a money trail, ES has defrauded the tax payer out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Not to mention the bad service. Your meds are stuffed into your mail box by USPS UNSIGNED FOR. Available to kids, teens, and drug thieves.

Express Scripts Accused Of Defrauding State And Consumers Out Of Millions Of Dollars
http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/express-scripts-accused-defrauding-state-and-consumers-out-millions-dollars

NY attoney general sues Express Scripts, Benefits firm accused of inflating prices, keeping up to $100 Million
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5601076/ns/business-corporate_scandals/t/ny-attorney-general-sues-express-scripts/#.U381ECh7SMQ

Express Scripts Extortion Scheme Widens
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/09/express_scripts_breach.html

Express Scripts complaints
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/rx/express_scripts.html

ES Customer Service ranking
http://www.customerservicescoreboard.com/Express+Scripts

Express Scripts RIP OFF
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/express-scripts

ES buys out Medco (already a scandal plagued company)
29 Billion
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120402/NEWS/304029961

When people start shaking off the skull block that is the “wait-time” issue...

We will definitely see how deep the rabbit hole goes...It goes way beyond the lackluster enrollment process, the initial care assessments, what the caregivers can and cannot do at the behest and permission of the non-doctor “desk jockeys” in that government organization...

I simply know that in the time that I was beginning to look at options for a career in High School, back in the late 70’s...

I learned that from people who are Veterans told me that the VA was something you did not want to be around...If it was true back then, why should anyone be surprised that it came to a semi-critical mass during this administration and current political makeup??? Couple that with a citizenry so distracted and with less virtue and loyalty to its very country, why should we expect ANYTHING TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS ANYTIME SOON???

Smoke and mirrors folks...Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain...

We have had our chance to correct this situation for decades, and those responsible have failed, our citizenry has failed in electing people of virtue to correct this and MANY other issues that do need addressing...And they have failed...

The reality is this...The propaganda machine has created a narrative that has replaced news and commentary for the foreseeable future...We cannot politically defeat that aspect anytime soon...We will have to gut out the last 2.5 years of the nonsense that this administration is leading us down...And even if we do manage to get back the Senate, and eventually that White House...

You can bet a dollar to a donut hole that the corrective measures necessary to restore national pride, loyalty, and overall virtue this country used to stand for, will be fought tooth and nail by the opposition and cowed to by the majority...If we manage to snake the majority from these destructive politicos and the pseudo-conservative some send to represent them...

So, if this doesn’t manage to make any impact on anyone’s decision on what YOU send to represent you, then I do not know what will...

November gives us a chance to make a small course change and keep us from hitting that iceberg “dead ahead”...Maybe this will give us time to be ready in 2 years to really put the right kind of pressure on both sides of the political spectrum to poop or get off the pot, or get the hell out of our way, we are DONE with you...

And be very unapologetic about that position!!!

I do not believe I am alone in this evaluation...The sentiments are probably very similar (socially) to the political atmosphere when this experiment was started about 238 years ago...

We may have to experience a re-birth of those founding principles we have forgotten about...And think we know what they truly meant...They have to apply today as well as when it did at the beginning...

Until we start lopping off more of the Cantor’s, the Boehner’s, the Cornyn’s, McConnell’s, Graham’s, Pelosi’s, Reid’s etc etc etc, pick your poison...It can certainly get worse, but there is a lot that could be improved and make it easier to flush the lot of these current occupiers or lofty titles and leather seats...

Until we accept that we (all of us) have failed to be able to be effective in our ability to at least remind these wayward citizens that they exist up there at OUR tolerance, they will fight back against us, if our realistic expectations are not very well received, politically, or socially...

Just remember, when McCarthy is crammed down our throats as the new Majority leader...Just remember, he has a history of being exactly what the problem is for this country...

It all starts with phone calls, emails, make sure you attend local town hall meetings, be prepared to ask the tough questions, expect to be ignored, boo’d, harassed, ostracized...Be unapologetic in your endeavors...First and foremost...

238 years ago, those old fogy, wig-wearing white guys, had some very interesting debates, it got nasty, but at the end of the day, they tossed back a few pints in the pubs down the street together...Put aside those differences and came up with some pretty neat stuff back then...

then they went home to their families knowing that when they succeeded, that a big fight was coming, so they sat down and made musket balls...

That outcome is far from a reality, but the process is the same...

You have to ask yourself this gut-check question, and I have presented it here for years...It is a rhetorical question, not requiring one to be responded to in a publically monitored discussion website like this...We have to be smarter than to advertise our individual intentions...

“What are YOU prepared to do about it, and what are YOU prepared to sacrifice for those goals?”

/rant

“Dems attack Romney for backing healthcare vouchers for veterans” (2011)
Democrats are blasting GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney for proposing to give veterans a healthcare voucher that critics say would undermine the Veterans Affairs system.

Romney introduced the idea Friday at a South Carolina campaign event. He said a voucher would give veterans more choices and force the government to compete with the private sector.

Romney’s campaign said the candidate was simply discussing ideas at the event, not laying out new policy proposals. The campaign also pointed out that the Obama administration in 2009 proposed to bill veterans’ private insurance companies for combat-related injuries, before withdrawing the idea within 48 hours in the face of stark opposition from veterans groups.

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