While our veterans are literally dying in hospitals within long wait lists – Veterans Administration hospitals have spent around $420 million on solar panels and windmills.
Because it’s important that our veterans DIE so the hospitals can be ‘ecological’…right?
Government agencies have to spend the money they get or they won’t have justification to receive the same, or more, the following year. And, because this government DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN about our vets to spend the money on actual care, they spend the money on something ‘the masses can agree on’ just to spend the money.
In total, VA hospitals reported 23 deaths due to 76 instances of delayed care, an April 2014 VA fact sheet said. Then on June 5, Acting Veteran Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibsonrevealed that at least 18 Phoenix patients died while waiting for treatment on a secret list kept off the books. It is not clear if that number is in addition to the 23 deaths reported earlier. During the past month, the scandal has resulted in the resignations of both the VA secretary and the leaders of its health care component.
According to a June 3 audit, 100,000 veterans had lengthy wait times for appointments. Of the nation’s 216 VA hospitals, 37 percent will require further investigation.
A whistleblower revealed Tuesday that seven of the patients listed on the Phoenix VA hospitals waiting list are already dead. That same Phoenix facility spent $20 million to build the nation’s largest solar carport. Phase one of the project was completed in 2011. The hospital also had an $11.4 million shortfall that year, an Inspector General’s report stated.
Also in 2011, only 49 percent of first-time patients nationwide got a full mental health evaluation within the VA’s own goal of within 14 days after initial contact, the IG’s report said.
The Phoenix hospital is not the only VA hospital to have installed solar panels while hiding long wait times. Millions in stimulus funds were used to install panels on two facilities, one Albuquerque, N.M., and another in nearby Tucson, Ariz.. With the latter, the VA spent $14.7 million between 2010 and 2012 to install solar panels on the roof of its medical center. The contract was awarded to REC Solar, the sixth-largest recipient of stimulus funds from the VA.
During the time of the solar project, one patient at the Tucson, Ariz., hospital died of colon cancer after not getting a routine colonoscopy. That death was revealed in a fact sheet the VA released in early April after an internal investigation.
Pure c**p………a boondoggle on the public…….shameful…..Take care of our Veterans now!!!
i’m impressed they are going more green now, but for sure us vets should come first,depending on health problems etc.
We The People MUST “Back” & SUPPORT Our VETERANS! THEY Gave Their ALL For OUR FREEDOMS!! They SO DESERVE BETTER TREATMENT!!! May God Bless, & Comfort EACH Of them!!
Give our Veterans a break ,if they didn’t fight for your butt where would you be now ? Sitting on your big butts collecting money while our Veterans suffer.give them the help they need now
STUPID point of view.
It is very difficult to understand what is going on these days…people in the Veterans Administration obviously do not have their heads screwed on straight….which applies to most of the Obama administration.
Obama cares more about his ‘green agenda’ than the vets or America.
Green $#%&!@*ing idiots making vets die. This $#%&!@* is way out of line.
What has changed they have always been treated this way. Who is kidding who
Obama doesn’t give a damn at all for our vets!