Posted on 08/07/2019 8:35:50 AM PDT by rktman
I first reported on the VA’s secretive database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets five years ago. Under the VA policy on “patient record flags,” federal bureaucrats can classify vets as “threats” based on assessments of their “difficult,” “annoying” and “noncompliant” behavior. The VA manual says the flags “are used to alert Veterans Health Administration medical staff and employees of patients whose behavior and characteristics may pose a threat either to their safety, the safety of other patients, or compromise the delivery of quality health care.”
What a crock. It’s precisely because so many vets receive inferior care from the feds that they have been forced to raise their voices. Have we all forgotten the 40 veterans who perished at the Phoenix, Arizona VA, which relegated patients to a bureaucratic black hole through secret waiting lists? Among examples of patients’ behavior referred to the red-flaggers in the VA’s “Disruptive Behavior Committees” (Orwell couldn’t have cooked up a better name): venting “frustration about VA services and/or wait times, threatening lawsuits or to have people fired, and frequent unwarranted visits to the emergency department or telephone calls to facility staff.”
Disabled Air Force veteran and veterans advocate/attorney Benjamin Krause has exposed the Soviet-style targeting of veterans flagged for exercising their First Amendment rights or threatening to sue the VA over neglectful care or for simply being too “expensive.” He calls it “straight out of a totalitarian regime.” In 2013, the VA inspector general concluded that the bureaucracy “does not have a comprehensive definition of what constitutes disruptive behavior.” In January 2018, a VA Office of Inspector General report found that large numbers of flagged veterans were being left in the dark about being placed on dangerous patient lists – with no recourse to remove phony flags or appeal in any meaningful way.
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Gun Control is the objective!!!!!!......
...and this is just one of many reasons I avoid the VA like the plague.
I’v talked to plenty of vets who don’t use the VA because they don’t want their guns taken.
Always has been. My brother who live outside of Dayton is now quavering and claiming that gun owners need to compromise or risk losing everything.
I'm thinking he may need to ask his wife for b@llz back.
A little secret about the VA. I had personal experience with at least 6 VAs as part of my training. I could relate numerous examples of incidents that led me to realize the following truth and if you care to hear them and have the time I will gladly relate a few. Suffice it to say that I concluded that the VA system was never intended to be used, certainly not the way folks think the gummint has promised. Lincoln promised to “provide for him who has born the battle” and that sounds to me like an obligation to heal the wounds of battle, not free medical care for life but somehow the latter is where we are now and have been for 50 years.
The problem is the VA was never funded as if everyone who was eligible would receive care there. In fact, IMHO, VA “care” was intentionally poor so only the desperate would seek care there. Trust me, I can back that statement up with MANY examples. There are a handful of VAs that are in districts where there are a lot of military retirees and COngressmen who are repeatedly re-elected by getting better funding for “their” VA (Gainesville, Florida, for one but there are others) but by and large any large city VA is a crap hole.
Well, a med I need(?) for my RA is about $12K per injection every 90 days so I gotta go for that. And, since my former employer decided anyone medicare eligible would be dropped from their health plan........................ Sometimes circumstances dictate what you gotta do.
That’s so simple even a rino could get it. Dems? As if they give two craps about your non gender specific cake anyway. So, do you compromise and add rainbow frosting or do you get sued. You know EXACTLY what I mean.
Today the VA medical system reports your behavior to the government, tomorrow "Medicare for All" reports the rest of us.
Well, bloom-in-idiot-berg is funding a lot of the anti crap so yeah, someone is making some money. Surely someone has the numbers that shannon t watts makes as the everyday housewife head of ‘nags’. Nutbags Against GunS
I understand. My dad used the VA almost exclusively for medical care and prescriptions up until his death. In the end, they wouldn’t take him in as a hospice patient because of his income status.
My 90 year old WWII/Korean War veteran neighbor also uses the VA, not so much because he has to, but because he believes that he gets adequate care, even though it is marginal at best from my point of view.
So, everyone has a different reason to use or not use the VA. I get it, but for me, I would have to be bleeding out with no other options before I darkened their door. The whole organization is rife with leeches and corruption. It needs a power washing and the Red Flag compliance Nazis need to be cast out.
Yeah, I had to fight to get in as a meager level 8 care patient due to my massive income(?). Trying to recall if I had any caveats when I raised my hand and my dad swore me in. Nope, can’t find anyplace where I was allowed to restrict what I would and wouldn’t do. Regardless of how little I was getting paid. Oh, well, I guess I should be grateful I even got in.
Just finished off Mrs rktman’s awsome pineapple cake last night. :-)
55 Years after being honorably discharged from the Navy I have filed for VA medical benefits, but for a specific reason- hearing aids. My primary care doc told me veterans can get free hearing aids. As I can not afford to pay $7-8,000 to replace the ones I’ve had for a number of years but are failing, I’m trying it out.
Excellent guide. Thanks for posting.
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