Posted on 10/27/2014 5:04:23 PM PDT by Nachum
The Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General on Monday denied hiding a 2008 report that identified improper manipulations of patient wait times at the Phoenix VA hospital where up to 40 veterans died while awaiting care.
In a statement released Monday, acting Veterans Affairs Inspector General Richard Griffin said that “suggestions from the media and some members of Congress that the OIG kept secret inappropriate scheduling practices are belied by nearly a decade of reporting.”
“We encourage serious readers to consider the persistent alarms the OIG has raised on patient wait times and scheduling practices—alarms acknowledged on numerous occasions by Congress at oversight hearings,” Griffin said.
The Washington Examiner’s Mark Flatten reported last week that a 2008 VA Inspector General report found employees at the Phoenix VA hospital were deliberately falsifying patient wait times to game the system.
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We even had a preview of government health care with the VA.
Why not simply provide veterans vouchers for health care within the free market, which would give them full access to medical technologies?
My Dad called the VA IG. He never heard back from them. He’s been dead three years. They couldn’t even call him back. What a bunch of worthless pukes.
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Wounded Warriors Project and Paralyzed Veterans of America ... doing the job that the VA is paid to do!
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