Veterans Obamacared! Part 11 (PDF) » http://fileb.ag/wr5a76dfokxi You can fight their fascist wars, but they sure as hell won’t fight for you’re freedoms or you’re right to decent health care! ¤ Lies About VA Reform Come to Light :: Sharon Helman, director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System in which vets needing medical care languished on secret lists, finally got sacked last week. She was the face of the VA scandal. Yet firing her took seven months. Unions have the Department of Veterans Affairs in a headlock, and nothing in the phony reform law passed by Congress last August changed that. Nearly all managers guilty of manipulating waiting lists, lying to vets and covering up are still getting paid. They have their jobs, or they’re collecting paid leave, or they retired with full benefits ahead of the ax. As for vets getting their promised Choice cards to escape wait lists and see a civilian doctor, don’t hold your breath. A whistle blower exposed the dirty tricks at the Phoenix VA last April, forcing Congress to deal with a problem it had allowed to fester for a decade. Earlier investigations had uncovered how managers manipulated waiting lists to make themselves look good and collect bonuses, while vets suffered. But few members of Congress bothered to read those earlier reports. Last May, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered a bill enabling the VA secretary to fire senior managers linked to the secret lists. Rubio said the secretary has to be able to “fire executives underneath him if they haven’t done their job.” But Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described socialist whose top campaign contributors are unions, killed the bill. Sanders insisted on protecting “due process” rules that make firing federal workers as hard as firing incompetent public school teachers. Three months later, Congress passed the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act with bipartisan fanfare. The bill’s backers, including Sanders, promised it would allow the VA secretary to hold corrupt senior executives accountable. That was a lie from Day One, but since few members of Congress read that bill before voting on it, how would they know? The truth came to light on November 13 during a heated interrogation of VA Deputy Director Sloan Gibson by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Committee Chair Jeff Miller, R-Fla., said he was “perplexed and disappointed” at the lack of change in VA personnel. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., called it “outrageous that Sharon Helman is still collecting her salary of $170,000 after being put on administrative leave in May.” Kirkpatrick said she wanted Helman fired immediately. That’s when Gibson broke the bad news that the new law doesn’t make it easier to fire corrupt executives. “Any removal must still meet stringent evidentiary standards and provide due process.” Otherwise, cautioned Gibson, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (which protects lack of merit in every federal department) will overturn the firing, reinstate the employee and award back pay and legal fees. Miller then demanded to know why corrupt employees can retire with all the “whistles and bells.” Gibson answered that the new law doesn’t remedy that either. So far, only three senior executives have been fired despite corruption in at least a dozen facilities. James Talton, former director of the Central Alabama VA, was terminated on October 24 for falsifying wait times and tolerating other abuses. Hundreds of patient X-rays were lost, and a pulmonologist copied old test results into patients’ records to avoid performing new tests. Talton’s boss, Charles Sepich, announced his own retirement last week. The second to go was Terry Gerigk Wolf, director of the Pittsburgh VA, who was accused of concealing the presence of Legionella bacteria in the hospital’s water supply. Six vets died. At the hearing, Congressman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., called it “indefensible” that Wolf’s deputy was recently promoted to head the Erie VA, proving that “if you hide information, and even though people die, you’re going to get promoted.” What ails the VA infects the entire federal bureaucracy. Firing a federal employee is almost impossible, and making it stick is even harder. There are 4,000 employees now on paid administrative leave, vacationing while the government struggles with “the bad performance protection board.” But at the VA, bad performance costs vets their lives. The new law required that vets be given Choice cards by November 5. No surprise. Only about one-tenth of the cards have been mailed, prolonging the deadly wait. http://humanevents.com/2014/12/03/lies-about-va-reform-come-to-light/ ¤ OUTRAGE! VA Stripping Vets of the Right to Purchase and Own Guns :: Tens of millions of Americans were outraged earlier this year when news broke that Veterans Administration hospitals were deleting veterans’ records and failing to schedule them for needed medical appointments in order to appear as though they were fixing a horrible backlog of patients who had yet to be seen. Then-VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, a retired US Army four-star general, was sacked over the scandal, and President Obama pledged to fix the system - one he knew back in 2008, during his first presidential campaign, was badly broken. VA has arbitrarily deprived many Veterans of their Second Amendment rights. But that is far from the only outrage committed against veterans. As reported by WorldNetDaily in 2013, many have been deprived of their Second Amendment rights simply because of an arbitrary decision made by VA bureaucrats: The Obama regime insists it’s routine for officials to send out letters informing veterans that an unidentified “report” indicates they may be declared incompetent and consequently stripped of their Second Amendment rights. Of course, this is the same administration that warned in a 2009 report that vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan “possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists.” So much for the Fifth Amendment. The letters were being sent, ironically, during one of the administration’s pushes for more gun control; the regime utilized the regulatory apparatus of the VA to deny veterans their right to keep and bear arms - a constitutional right they served and fought to protect. The letters informed vets that they could be determined to be “incompetent” to handle their own financial affairs and thus would be assigned a financial adviser from the VA. But the incompetence ruling was then forwarded to the FBI’s national NICS background check system - and that automatically prevented them from being able to either purchase, own or possess firearms. What’s more, these determinations were done arbitrarily and devoid of a clear and open set of guidelines, rules or other criteria. In fact, such determinations avoided Fifth Amendment “due process” guarantees, as well as any determination and adjudication by a court of law, as required by statute. Within weeks of WND’s initial reports, veterans filed suit against the government to stop the process. The suits were filed by the United States Justice Foundation, a legal group dedicated to the protection of constitutional rights. “The information requested included Veterans Benefits Administration rules, regulations and criteria for making determinations of incompetency due to a physical or mental condition of a benefit recipient,” said Michael Connelly, executive director of the group, in explaining that the initial suit was to request information via the Freedom of Information Act. Copies of the rules, regulations and criteria “used by the VBA to determine that a veteran found incompetent for any reason can be prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm,” he said. Determination prohibits you from owning guns. According to WND, one of the VA’s letters - received by a veteran in Oregon informing him of a 2012 determination from the Portland VA Medical Center - said that “evidence indicates that you are not able to handle your VA benefit payments because of a physical or mental condition.” “We propose to rate you incompetent for VA purposes. This means we must decide if you are able to handle your VA benefit payments. We will base our decision on all the evidence we already have including any other evidence you sent to us,” the letter continued. The determination meant that the VA would provide a “fiduciary” to manage the vet’s payments. Then the letter warned: “A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jIQsN-mA0 http://www.naturalnews.com/047816_veterans_administration_second_amendment_mental_health.html ¤ VA Incompetence Wastes Millions, Vets Obamacared :: Even as hundreds of thousands of veterans wait weeks for a doctor’s appointment, the Veterans Health Administration is on track to mismanage hundreds of millions of dollars over the next five years, according to a government oversight report. http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-12-02576-30.pdf The report estimates that the VHA will inappropriately spend $159 million annually or $795 million over the next five years by doing things like not seeking out the best price for contracts. This comes on the heels of a USA Today investigation that found that over 600,000 veterans are waiting more than a month for appointments at VA hospitals and clinics. http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/20/report-va-incompetence-wastes-millions/ ¤ Reeling From PTSD, Issac Sims Tried Unsuccessfully to Get Help From the VA :: http://www.stripes.com/reeling-from-ptsd-issac-sims-tried-unsuccessfully-to-get-help-from-the-va-1.311928 ¤ VA Now Needs Agility On Health Care’s Front Lines :: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/02/veterans-administration-finally-gets-money-needs-help-cut-waiting-lines/fiC9qbwbU6KF1AuB5lNgVL/story.html ¤ VA Clinic’s Automated Phone System Hasn’t Been Working For Weeks :: For the past two weeks, some veterans have been complaining that they have been unable to schedule medical appointments at a busy Veterans Administration (VA) outpatient clinic in Hackensack, New Jersey, The Public Record has learned. The problem? The automated phone system veterans’ dial into disconnects their calls when they are prompted to press a digit in order to connect with the right office. “Every time I call I get disconnected. I have diabetes and started a new medicine three week ago and have not been feeling right, but when I call I can’t even as much as talk to a nurse. I just get disconnected when I call for assistance. I can’t believe this!” said one veteran, who requested anonymity because he fears VA officials would destroy his paperwork if he reveals his identity. http://pubrecord.org/nation/11290/clinic-discovered-veterans-havent/ An internal audit conducted by the VA’s watchdog concluded that there were widespread problems at VA clinics around the country that saw employees manipulating schedules, concealing delays in medical care and maintaining secret lists. http://www.va.gov/health/docs/VAAccessAuditFindingsReport.pdf That includes the VA’s New Jersey Healthcare System, which, according to a chart created by USA Today, based on the VA statistics, found that 8.6 percent of the employees there were told falsify appointment data. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/usanow/2014/07/29/va-veterans-healthcare-delay-fraud/13321571/ ¤ Veterans Detail VA Hospital Problems :: Veterans cried about how they were treated, worried whether they would live to see Christmas and reported identity mix-ups that had nurses mismatching drugs at the VA hospital in Nashville, which has some of the nation’s longest wait times to see doctors. These were the stories Juan Morales, director of the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, heard during a town hall meeting Monday afternoon. About 90 people filled a small room, holding up their hands and waiting for a chance to speak. Their list of complaints was long, ranging from reports of administrative staff ignoring them while talking on cellphones to grievances about doctors abruptly canceling appointments or misdiagnosing illnesses. The meeting was the third of four briefings Morales has scheduled with veterans in the wake of a congressional investigation about delays veterans faced nationwide trying to see doctors. While established patients in Middle Tennessee had an average wait time of three days, according to a government audit, veterans needing to see a specialist didn’t get in the door for 71 days on average. Those were veterans primarily needing to see ophthalmologists, podiatrists and pain specialists. The wait time for a new patient to see a specialist now averages 61 days, Morales said. But an established patient from Goodlettsville is also concerned about wait times. Robert Morgan worries he has cancer that won’t get diagnosed and treated soon enough. After he complained of stomach pain and bathroom problems, he said, it took a month to get a CT scan when nodules were found in his kidneys and liver. He said he thinks he may have colon cancer that has metastasized. 'Not expeditious' “They said I needed another CT scan, which was scheduled for two weeks later,” Morgan said. “Trust me, that’s not expeditious. I’ll die, and the reason I’ll die is because I don’t receive timely care. There are a lot of guys in this room who are sicker than me, and it will probably happen to them, too.” Morales said he would have a staff member check on the situation. “I’d appreciate it if you’d do something, because I’d like to be here come Christmas,” Morgan answered. “Right now, I don’t think I’m gonna be.” Misty Hollars told how she could not get her father, Miles Hollars, transferred from a hospital in Franklin, Ky., to the VA hospital in Nashville. The family had to go to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, she said, asking whether the VA system would cover that hospital bill. Roger Morris of Clarksville brought with him the names of the nurses he said put him into a “bloody bed,” neglected to put an identifying wristband on him and then got the identities of patients mixed up and brought them the wrong medications. “Wrong medications can kill somebody,” Morris said. “Do you understand me, sir?” He said he asked to be discharged so he could go to another hospital, and the nurse took his bloody IV tube out and laid it on a food tray. “Can you explain that, sir?” Morris asked. Morales apologized and promised to investigate, saying, “First of all, I’m sorry for the experience you had. If that’s what happened, that’s not acceptable.” 'Stellar expert care' Jim Haggar said he had received “stellar expert care” recently at the Nashville VA hospital and had never seen “a cleaner hospital room in my life.” “I just want to make sure the people who do a fantastic job are getting a little bit of notice as well,” he said. But Haggar did suggest that the VA outsource hospitality training for its front -line staff, with the goal of making them as customer-centric as people who work at the Cleveland Clinic. Morales said the Nashville hospital was adding staff after receiving federal approval to bring on an additional 323 personnel and build space for more examination rooms. He said the area’s expanding population had made it difficult to meet the growing demand for care. He admitted that it might be difficult to fill some sub-specialty positions, such as pain physicians. “It takes time to recruit,” he said. “We want to hire the right staff for our veterans.” http://www.wbir.com/story/news/2014/09/23/veterans-detail-va-hospital-problems/16091171/ ¤ Services for Female Veterans Fall Short :: The Veterans Affairs Department and other government agencies are not doing enough to help women who served in the military, even as their number is rising dramatically, according to a new report. The report, released Wednesday by the Disabled American Veterans, identified serious gender gaps in virtually every program serving veterans, including health care, job training, finance, housing, social issues and combatting sexual assault. The advocacy group’s report blamed most of the deficiencies on a disregard for the needs of female veterans, saying the VA and other agencies focus on “the 80 percent solution for men who dominate (veterans affairs) in both numbers and public consciousness.” A sharp increase in reporting of military sexual trauma is an illustration of problems that require “radical change” at the VA and throughout the military, the report says. “At a time when the number of women veterans is growing to unprecedented levels, our country is simply not doing enough to meet their health, social and economic needs,” said Joy Ilem, DAV’s deputy national legislative director. Female veterans “deserve equal respect, consideration and care as the men who served, yet the support systems are ill-equipped to meet the unique needs of the brave women who have defended our country,” she said. The DAV report closely tracks an Associated Press review in June that found serious shortcomings in how the VA cares for female veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them of child-bearing age. The AP review found that nearly one in four VA hospitals does not have a fulltime gynecologist on staff, and that 140 of the 920 community-based clinics serving veterans in rural areas do not have a designated women’s health provider, despite a goal that all clinics have one. Female veterans of child-bearing age were far more likely to be given medications that can cause birth defects than were women being treated through a private doctor, the AP found. The VA cared for about 390,000 female veterans last year at its hospitals and clinics — far fewer than the 5.3 million male veterans who used the VA system in fiscal year 2013. But the number of women receiving care at VA has more than doubled since 2000. The tens of thousands of predominantly young, female veterans returning home have dramatically changed the VA’s patient load, and the system has yet to fully catch up. While the number of male veterans is expected to decline by 2020, the number of female veterans is expected to grow dramatically, to 11 percent of the veteran population, the report said. Dr. Carolyn Clancy, the VA’s acting undersecretary for health, said the VA will consider all of the report’s 27 recommendations on topics including health care, education, job training and sexual assault. The report will serve “as our road map for improvements,” Clancy told a gathering of female veterans and their supporters at the Capitol on Wednesday. The VA is working to ensure that all clinics and hospitals have a women’s health provider onsite, she said, adding the agency makes referrals to private providers in cases where none is available at the VA. “We’ve made some great progress,” Clancy said in an interview. “Certainly the awareness (of women’s issues) is way up. It’s certainly a priority.” http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/report-services-female-veterans-fall-short-25726947 ¤ Feds Treating Illegals Better Than Veterans :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8RNaqeaBLg http://www.infowars.com/feds-treating-illegals-better-than-veterans/ ¤ Death and Corruption at the Veterans Administration :: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/14/death-and-corruption-at-the-veterans-administration/ ¤ VA Wasted Millions $$$ in Unauthorized Purchases :: ... as vets who risked their lives went untreated. http://allenbwest.com/2014/05/troubling-veterans-administration-news-millions-wasted-unauthorized-purchases/ ¤ Whistleblowers Flood VA With Lawsuits :: An apology from a senior VA official earlier this month failed to prevent a spate of employment-related federal lawsuits from former employees who claim they faced retaliation after lodging workplace complaints, a review of court records shows. The complaints include the case of a former staff psychologist in South Dakota who says she was punished for calling attention to building problems that were making people physically ill. In another case, a patient safety manager in Texas says he was suspended after raising concerns about a staffing shortage in his department, all while being the target of racial slurs. It’s unclear whether the unfolding VA scandal will result in an uptick in lawsuits and the prospect of expensive legal judgments or settlements. But the half-dozen recent cases reviewed by The Washington Times almost certainly represent a tiny fraction of overall workplace complaints the agency is facing. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/23/whistleblowers-flood-va-with-lawsuits-despite-apol/ ¤ Obamacared! Cancer-Stricken Veteran Denied Benefits :: Ken Moore, a Vietnam veteran suffering from cancer who is unable to walk or speak, was denied disability benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to add insult to injury he was told via a letter to go get a job. http://www.wsmv.com/story/26097850/veteran-unable-to-walk-talk-told-by-va-he-should-go-to-work http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/23/Tennessee-Veteran-Who-is-Unable-to-Walk-Told-to-Get-a-Job-by-VA ¤ VA Employees Switched From Processing VA Applications to Obamacare Applications :: http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/va-employees-switched-processing-va-applications-obamacare-applications ¤ VA Medical Staff Stole Morphine From Dying Patients :: Vials of morphine were systemically stolen from a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and replaced with water and saline so that dying veterans got the wrong treatments, a longtime VA nurse told The Daily Caller. “A nurse taking care of hospice patients over the past year had been diverting vials of morphine,” said Valerie Riviello, a 28-year veteran nurse at the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, New York. “Those patients that were dying in hospice were not getting their intended pain medication.” http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/07/nurse-va-medical-staff-stole-morphine-from-dying-patients/ ¤ Dear US Soldiers And Veterans ; Avoid The Following Hospitals Like The Plague :: The VA scandal was just the beginning. According to Internal documents obtained by New York Times, US military healthcare is "a system in which scrutiny is sporadic and avoidable errors are chronic." As the NYT reports In Military Care, a Pattern of Errors but Not Scrutiny, "the military system has consistently had higher than expected rates of harm and complications in two central parts of its business — maternity care and surgery." Among the findings: • More than 50,000 babies are born at military hospitals each year, and they are twice as likely to be injured during delivery as newborns nationwide, the most recent statistics show. And their mothers were more likely to hemorrhage after childbirth than mothers at civilian hospitals, according to a 2012 analysis conducted for the Pentagon. • In surgery, half of the system’s 16 largest hospitals had higher than expected rates of complications over a recent 12-month period, the American College of Surgeons found last year. Four of the busiest hospitals have performed poorly on that metric year after year. Hospitals with high rates of surgical complications: • Madigan Army Medical Center • San Antonio Army Medical Center • Naval Medical Center San Diego • Mike O'Callaghan Federal Medical Center • Portsmouth Naval Hospital • Womack Army Medical Center • Fort Belvoir Community Hospital • Evans Army Community Hospital http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/06/Bad%20Hospitals_0.jpg http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-29/dear-us-veterans-avoid-following-hospitals-plague ¤ Obamacared! Vet Finally Gets VA Doctor’s Appointment – 2 Years After He Died :: Suzanne Chase of Acton was talking about her husband, Doug, a Vietnam veteran who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2011. In 2012, she tried to move his medical care to the Veterans Affairs hospital in Bedford. “It was so difficult for him to take the ambulance ride into Boston, we wanted to be closer.” They waited about four months and never heard anything. Then Douglas Chase died in August 2012. But two weeks ago, he got a letter, from the VA in Bedford, saying he could now call to make an appointment to see a primary care doctor. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/iteam-acton-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-2-years-after-he-died/ ¤ Obamacared! Poor Care at VA Hospitals Cost 1,000 Veterans Their Lives - Costed Taxpayers $1,000,000,000 :: The problems at Veterans Affairs extend well beyond long wait lists, with a report Tuesday showing the department is plagued with poor care that has cost up to 1,000 veterans their lives and left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $1 billion in malpractice settlements since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... ... But Mr. Coburn traced the problem to bad management and lax working standards, not to lack of money. In one finding, he said VA doctors average about half the workload that private -practice primary care physicians do, suggesting there is room for them to take more patients. Among his other findings: • Female patients received unnecessary pelvic and breast exams from a sex offender. • Delays are endemic. In addition to care waiting lists, the VA is behind on processing disability claims and constructing facilities. • Some VA health care providers have lost their medical licenses, but the VA hides that information from patients. • The federal government has paid out $845 million for VA medical malpractice settlements since 2001. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/24/poor-care-va-hospitals-cost-1000-veterans-their-li/ ¤ Obamacared! Whistle-Blower Claims Phoenix VA Covered-Up Deaths Of At Least 7 Vets :: A whistle-blower claims that the Phoenix VA tried to hide the deaths of at least seven veterans who died while awaiting care. Pauline DeWenter, a scheduling clerk for the Phoenix VA Health Care System, told The Arizona Republic that someone at the VA tried to cover up the deaths of the vets by altering computer forms. DeWenter said that she originally typed the word “deceased” on the form explaining why an appointment for the vet never happened. When inspectors checked the form during their investigation, they found that the “deceased” designation” was replaced with “entered in error” and that an appointment was “no longer needed.” “I’m a bad person,” DeWenter told The Republic. “My hands were tied. I tried to scream, and did the best with what I had. But the vets who were upset and deceased – I can’t shake that feeling.” http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2014/06/24/phoenix-va-scandal-whistle-blower-kept-deaths-secret/11297965/ With wait times rigged, VA employees were able to get bonuses for appearing to meet goals to reduce delays in patient care. At the Phoenix medical center, the bonuses totaled more than $10 million over the past three years. http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/24/whistle-blower-claims-phoenix-va-covered-up-deaths-of-at-least-7-vets/ ¤ Hundreds of Unprocessed Medical Records at Memphis VA :: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/23/shocker-thedc-uncovers-another-va-medical-center-scandal/ ¤ Veteran Waited 8 Years for PTSD Treatment From VA :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrlwmrHmC20 http://www.progressivestoday.com/veteran-waited-8-years-for-ptsd-treatment-from-va/ ¤ Vet Killed at Close Range After Refusing to Go to Hospital :: Chicago police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds at close range because he refused to go to hospital, a lawsuit brought by the man’s family claims. The incident, which occurred on July 26 last year, involved John Wrana, Jr, a resident at Park Forest Assisted Living Center in Park Forest, Illinois. Wrana, who was just 12 days shy of his 96th birthday, was suffering from a suspected urinary tract infection. However, when Victory Center employees attempted to persuade Wrana to get in an ambulance and go to hospital, he refused to leave his room. Wrana subsequently brandished a knife and a long shoehorn in an attempt to resist paramedics. Five police officers, Clifford Butz, Michael Baugh, Craig Taylor, Lloyd Elliot, Charlie Hoskins and Mitch Greer, were called to the scene before Commander Michael Baugh ordered force to be used against Wrana. On entering the room and missing with a Taser dart, Taylor fired “five rounds of bean bag cartridges from a 12 gauge shotgun within a distance of approximately only six to eight feet from Mr. Wrana, far less than the distance allowed for discharging that shotgun, and, consequently, savagely wounding and killing Mr. Wrana,” according to the lawsuit. http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/06/23/68943.htm http://www.infowars.com/lawsuit-police-shot-95-year-old-wwii-veteran-to-death-with-bean-bag-rounds/ ¤ Vets Died as VA Obsessed Over Renewable “Green” Energy :: The sick and halt wait but the solar panels don’t. The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand. The department early on set up an Office of Green Management Programs designed to “help VA facilities nationwide recognize opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative ‘green’ practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within the VA.” This sometimes means paying more attention to greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care. In the department’s words, it adopted a far more important mission to “become more energy efficient and sustainable, focusing primarily on renewable energy, energy and water efficiency, [carbon-dioxide] emissions reduction, and sustainable buildings.” The green office isn’t merely a desk and telephone tucked away in the dark corner of a nondescript government building. It’s a substantial undertaking, with all the luxury, bells and whistles of a bureaucracy that means business. Eric K. Shinseki, who resigned as secretary in the wake of the VA scandal of the sin of omission, traveled the country to boast of the green initiative. In one instance, he traveled to Massachusetts to flick the switch at a half-million-dollar windmill project at the Massachusetts National Cemetery. “Nationally,” he said, “VA continues to expand its investment in renewable sources of energy to promote our nation’s energy independence, save taxpayer dollars, and improve care for our veterans and their families. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/19/editorial-strange-priorities-at-the-va/ ¤ More Vets Obamacared :: http://www.naturalnews.com/045579_Veterans_Affairs_health_care_system_government_programs.html ¤ FBI Opens Criminal Investigation Into VA :: Multiple internal investigations by the inspector general and the VA have concluded that schedulers throughout the VA system faced pressure from supervisors to make it appear as though veterans were receiving care within 14 days. In reality, veterans at many hospitals throughout the country were waiting months to see doctors. Hospital administrators’ bonuses and promotions were tied to their ability to hit the 14-day target. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-joins-review-of-allegations-into-va-misconduct/2014/06/11/7f750b02-f177-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html ¤ Obama Regime Trying to Cover up the VA Scandal by Issuing Subpoenas to Whistle-Blower Sites :: http://www.infowars.com/the-obama-administration-is-trying-to-cover-up-the-va-scandal-by-issuing-subpoenas-to-whistle-blower-sites/ LEAK INFO HERE » http://vbmwh445kf3fs2v4.onion/ ¤ 100,000 Veterans Face Long Waits to See VA Doctors :: Some 100,000 veterans across the country are waiting long periods to see doctors, according to an internal Department of Veterans Affairs audit released Monday. The VA says it already has contacted 50,000 veterans trying to get them quicker medical care. A total of 57,436 veterans across the country have waited 90 days to see a doctor and still did not have an appointment as of May 15, the VA said. The agency also found evidence that in the past 10 years, nearly 64,000 veterans who sought VA care were simply never seen by a doctor. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/09/va-waiting-lists-phoenix-shinseki-gibson/10224797/ ¤ Midwest VA Hospitals Also Had Secret Waiting Lists :: The problems with delayed care and unauthorized wait lists that caused a furor at a Veterans Affairs health care campus in Arizona existed at several facilities in the Midwest, but in much smaller numbers, VA officials said in letters to two US senators. The Department of Veterans Affairs maintained 10 such “secret waiting lists” of military veterans in need of care at facilities in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, the letters said. They also said at least 96 veterans waited more than 90 days for treatment at seven facilities in those states, including 26 in St. Louis and 19 in Columbia, Missouri. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/3/wichita-va-hospital-had-secret-waiting-list/ ¤ Man Dies in Veterans’ Hospital After Police Stomped Him for Trying to Leave :: When a 65-year-old veteran tried to discharge himself from a VA hospital, he received a fatal beating from police, his widow alleges in a federal lawsuit. Jonathan Montano, 65, survived the Vietnam War, but he did not survive the Department of Veterans Affairs. His widow, Norma Montano, has come forth with a complaint against the VA describing how beating by police caused him to die an untimely death. http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/jonathan-montano/ ¤ OBAMACARED! VA Hospital Staff Got $1,000,000 in Bonuses While Therapy Pool for Wounded Vets Shut Down :: Uncle Sam treats his pawns well. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/3/va-hospital-staff-got-1m-bonuses-while-therapy-poo/ http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/02/va-hospital-axed-veteran-programs-while-approving-1-million-in-bonuses/ ¤ Relative Describes Squalid State of St. Louis VA :: http://www.progressivestoday.com/exclusive-filth-feces-urine-and-trash-veterans-abused-at-st-louis-va-pictures/ ¤ Veteran to Colorado VA - You Owe Me a Leg :: http://www.progressivestoday.com/veteran-to-colorado-va-you-owe-me-a-leg/ ¤ Vets Around the Country Describe VA Hospital Experiences :: http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/VA-hospital-veterans-experiences/2014/05/31/id/574401/ ¤ Shinseki Resigns :: Politicians want to sweep this injustice under the rug from bad publicity because elections are drawing near. In reality they don’t give a flying fuck about the vets. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/shinseki-apologizes-for-va-health-care-scandal/2014/05/30/e605885a-e7f0-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html ¤ 1,700 Vets Left Off VA Hospital Wait List :: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/report-1700-vets-left-va-hospital-wait-list ¤ Internal VA Email Reveals Los Angeles VA Hospital Manipulated Records :: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/05/29/LA-VA-Hospital-Manipulated-Records ¤ The VA - A Window Into the Future of Obamacare :: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/27/Window-Into-the-Future ¤ Texas VA Run Like a ‘Crime Syndicate,’ Whistleblower Says :: Last week, President Obama pledged to address allegations of corruption and dangerous inefficiencies in the veterans’ health-care system. But before the president could deliver on his pledge, the scandal has spread even further. New whistleblower testimony and internal documents implicate an award-winning VA hospital in Texas in widespread wrongdoing —and what appears to be systemic fraud. Emails and VA memos obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast provide what is among the most comprehensive accounts yet of how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system. It shows not only how they manipulated hospital wait lists but why—to cover up the weeks and months veterans spent waiting for needed medical care. If those lag times had been revealed, it would have threatened the executives’ bonus pay. What’s worse, the documents show the wrongdoing going unpunished for years, even after it was repeatedly reported to local and national VA authorities. That indicates a new troubling angle to the VA scandal: that the much touted investigations may be incapable of finding violations that are hiding in plain sight. “For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” a whistleblower who works in the Texas VA told The Daily Beast. “People up on top are suddenly afraid they may actually be prosecuted and they’re pressuring the little guys down below to cover it all up.” “I see it in the executives’ eyes,” the whistleblower added. “They are worried.” The current VA scandal broke in Phoenix last month, when a former doctor at a VA hospital there became the first whistleblower to gain national attention. The doctor’s allegations of falsified appointments—and veterans dying while they waited for treatment —unleashed a wave of similar claims from VA employees nationwide. In Cheyenne, Wyoming, Chicago, and Albuquerque, more VA whistleblowers came forward claiming that the same fraudulent scheduling was being used in the hospitals where they worked. At last count, the VA inspector general’s investigation had expanded to 26 separate facilities. The torrent of claims led to Senate hearings, calls for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign, multiple investigations and President Obama’s own public statement last week. Paul Rieckhoff, founder and chief executive officer of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), believes that even more revelations are coming. “This newest case just further illustrates that the scandal is much more far reaching than most people realize,” Rieckhoff said, “Phoenix was just the tip of the iceberg. Scandal has become the new normal, it’s the status quo at the VA right now.” But, despite the political uproar and the growing investigations, the root causes of the VA crisis have remained murky. New documents and whistleblower testimony obtained by The Daily Beast shed light on exactly how fraud is being perpetrated in the VA and its underlying causes. There’s enormous pressure to report favorable wait times for VA patients, the Texas whistleblower explained, even if those wait times are completely false. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/27/exclusive-texas-va-run-like-a-crime-syndicate-whistleblower-says.html ANATOMY OF A FRAUD http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1174549/1-cancelled-order.pdf NOTES ON A SCANDAL http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1174544/2_emailchain.pdf PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1174555/4-performanceobjs.pdf COVER-UP? http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1174556/5-speakdirector.pdf ¤ Infowars Investigates the VA’s History of Neglect :: http://www.infowars.com/infowars-investigates-the-vas-history-of-neglect/ ¤ Yet Another Vet Obamacared - Widow Claims Veterans’ Hospital Police Beat Her Husband to Death :: https://www.courthousenews.com/2014/05/25/68182.htm http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/27/family-alleges-va-police-killed-vet/ ¤ FLASHBACK! Obama in 2008 - VA Will be Leader of Health Care Reform :: http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-2008-va-will-become-a-leader-of-health-care-reform/ ¤ VA Scandal Is the Future of Obamacare Says Palin :: “Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost,” Palin wrote in 2009 while predicting “death panels.” “And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.” http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/21/Sarah-Palin-VA-Scandal-Future-of-Obamacare-if-Democrats-Not-Voted-Out ¤ VETS OBAMACARED ; VA Has Already Admitted 23 Veteran Deaths Linked to Delays in Care :: Delays in endoscopy screenings for potential gastrointestinal cancer in 76 veterans treated at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals are linked to 23 deaths, most of them three to four years ago, according to the VA. The delays occurred at 27 VA hospitals with deaths at 13 of the facilities. http://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2014/04/08/va-cancer-treatment-deaths-delay-veterans-hospitals/7457255/ http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/contradiction-presidents-claim-va-admitted-23-veteran-deaths-linked-delays-care_793459.html ¤ VETS OBAMACARED ; Director of Phoenix VA Hospital Where Vets Died from Delays Received $8,500 Bonus :: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/director-phoenix-va-hospital-where-vets-died-received-8500-bonus-april_793434.html ¤ VA Delay Obamacared Washington State Man :: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/05/21/va-delay-killed-washington-state-man/ ¤ 0-care ; Louisiana VA Staff Falsified Documents :: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/22/louisiana-va-staff-falsified-documents/ ¤ Whistleblower Reveals VA Corruption & Abuse :: VA Supervisor said older veterans should be “taken outside and shot in the head” to save money! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI3dEsjrXXA http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-whistleblower-reveals-new-va-scandal/ ¤ Veterans Have Felt the Wrath of Obamacare for Years :: New scandle breaks out after veterans die while having to wait for medical care. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/328546c0-dd10-11e3-8546-00144feabdc0.html ¤ How Much The Government Cares About You :: http://0paste.com/5938 ¤ FLASHBACK - Obama Promised to End Deplorable Conditions at VA Hospitals - Now Spreads the VA Scandle Throughtout the Country With Obamacare :: http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/378322/obama-2007-time-end-deplorable-conditions-some-va-hospitals-jim-geraghty ¤ Veterans Know “Obamacare” Because They Already Have It ... and It SUCKS! :: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ By now, the slow-motion train wreck that is Obamacare has been well documented, as new revelations about the law become known to the public. From antiquated technology to cost uncertainty to not keeping your doctor, the reality of government-mandated health care is smacking Americans in the face. But for America’s war veterans, this is all old news. If you’re looking for an even more damning glimpse of Obamacare’s future, ask a military veteran about their experiences with the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). You will not find their responses reassuring. ... ... When their benefit claims are stymied by the VA’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, veterans often recite a mordantly cynical refrain: “Delay, deny, wait till I die.” http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/veterans-know-obamacare-because-they-already-have-it/ ______________________________________ ¤ Obamacare, An Absolute Fraud (PASTEBINS MIRRORED) :: OBAMACARED-27-SEP-2014.zip (49 pastes | ZIP | 1.27MB) http://fileb.ag/q0pb2mynqbsk ______________________________________ ¤ OBAMACARE ARCHIVE - MAY 21st 2014 :: https://www.quickleak.org/vPUifhRg ______________________________________ ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 1 :: http://0paste.com/6207 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 2 :: http://0paste.com/6208 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 3 :: http://0paste.com/6209 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 4 :: http://0paste.com/6210 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 5 :: http://0paste.com/6211 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 6 :: http://0paste.com/6212 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! Part 7 :: http://0paste.com/6213 ¤ Veterans Obamacared! 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