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AuH20
05-21-2014, 09:05 PM
There is 'Murica for you.

http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-whistleblower-reveals-new-va-scandal/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wI3dEsjrXXA

kcchiefs6465
05-21-2014, 11:37 PM
This picture is titled: Living Death

http://i.imgur.com/ZucPJes.jpg?1


Perhaps he was speaking of what would be most humane (not that I would ever consider hypothesizing about such a progressive, immoral thing)? I see the "so to save money" isn't quoted in the headline. I do not have 15 minutes at the moment, but will bookmark to watch later.

Trying to care for someone who has lost half their face, or was burned close to death, or was mutilated by a shrapnel shard, (or....) is incredibly expensive. Figure what fifty years of hospice care around the clock might cost. Millions of dollars per soldier (before the procedures, surgeries, medicine). They shouldn't be there.

(in advance, before my picture is censored, one should consider that this gentleman had to look at that every day for the rest of his life.. I could show the melted serviceman being paraded around as a prop if one would rather me do that.)

In any case, if anyone was wondering, they do not give a fuck about veterans. (You can tell this by the way they ship them across the planet to die for corporate reasons)

donnay
05-22-2014, 06:18 AM
Oliver Stone tried to bring this to the people's attention in his movie; Born on the Fourth of July.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRDr3miUyc


This is socialized medicine and what is to be expected with Obamacare in the long run.

kathy88
05-22-2014, 06:22 AM
Wouldn't we save more money if the worker who said that is shot in the head instead? Longer life expectancy and all...

donnay
05-22-2014, 06:32 AM
Miami VA Whistleblower Exposes Drug Dealing, Theft, Abuse

Jim DeFede

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – When asked why he would risk his job and speak publicly, Detective Thomas Fiore considered the question carefully before answering.

“People are dying,” he finally said, “and there are so many things that are going on there that people need to know about.”

Fiore, a criminal investigator for the VA police department in South Florida, contacted CBS4 News hoping to shed light on what he considers a culture of cover-ups and bureaucratic neglect. Among his charges: Drug dealing on the hospital grounds is a daily occurrence.

“Anything from your standard prescription drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet, and of course marijuana, cocaine, heroin, I’ve come across them all,” he explained.

Even inside the hospital, he says he was stopped from doing his job – investigating reports of missing drugs from the VA pharmacy. When the amount of a particular drug inside the pharmacy doesn’t match the amount that the pharmacy is supposed to have, a report, known as a “discrepancy report” is generated. Normally it was his job to investigate the reports to determine if they were the result of harmless mistakes or criminal activity. But all that changed, he said, about two years ago.

“I was instructed that I was to stop conducting investigations pertaining to controlled substance discrepancies,” he recalled.

He said he was personally told to stop investigating them by the hospital’s chief of staff, Dr. Vincent DeGennaro.

“I have no idea why,” he said. “He’s the chief of staff he doesn’t have to tell me why.”

DeGennaro declined our request for an interview. A spokesman for the VA wrote CBS4 News: “The Miami VA is required to monitor all controlled substances and resolve inventory discrepancies within 72 hours. Any unresolved discrepancies are reported to the Miami VA Healthcare System Director and Controlled Substance Coordinator, VA OIG, DEA and VA Police for independent investigation.”

Fiore said he decided to contact CBS4 News following our report last month on the death of Nicholas Cutter, a 27-year-old Iraq War veteran with PTSD who died from a cocaine overdose inside the Miami VA’s drug rehab center.

Continued... (http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/05/20/miami-va-whistleblower-exposes-drug-dealing-theft-abuse/)

donnay
05-22-2014, 06:35 AM
Lawyer: VA Delay Killed Washington State Man

Gene Johnson, Associated Press

SEATTLE (AP) — Donald Douglass had a small spot on his forehead when he went to the Seattle Veterans Affairs hospital in 2011.

A biopsy confirmed it was cancerous. But it was four months before the hospital scheduled an appointment for him to have it removed — and by then, it had spread, wrapping around a facial nerve and eventually getting into his blood.

The delay proved fatal, his lawyer said — and it mirrors concerns being raised about the VA system nationally.

“There was no reason for this procedure to be delayed,” said the attorney, Jessica Holman of Tacoma. “Had he had his surgery timely, he’d be alive today.”

Congress has been in an uproar over allegations of treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA hospitals, with more than two dozen facilities being investigated nationwide. At the VA hospital in Phoenix, 40 veterans allegedly died while waiting for treatment, and staff there reportedly kept a secret list of patients waiting for appointments to hide delays in care.

Continued... (http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/05/21/va-delay-killed-washington-state-man/)