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.
This is so stupid.
TO ME THIS IS THE BIGGEST GOVERNMENT SCAM OF ALL TIME & IT HAS BEEN THIS LONG RUNNING PROBLEM…ALL Government agencies, EVEN MILITARY BASES, have to spend “ALL” the money they get or they won’t have justification to receive the same, or more, the following year. And, because THE government HAS NEVER GIVEN A DAMN about our vets OR BUDGETING to spend carefully the money on actual necessities OR TO SAVE THE MONEY TO SPEND LATER ON BETTER EQUIPMENT, they spend the money ‘on buzz item’s’ that will curry favor with the big bosses (like solar panels) just to spend the money to keep the same budget for next year!!!!!!!!!!! YOU THINK IT WAS A BIG DEAL THAT THE VA EMPLOYEES GOT BONUSES FOR APPEARING TO HAVE SHORT WAITING LISTS…IMAGE MAKING “EVERY” SINGLE AGENCY IN THE GOVERNMENT SPEND ALLLLLLLLLL THEIR MONEY TO BUY STUFF THEY DON’T NEED, JUST SO THE DEPARTMENT CAN HAVE THE SAME BUDGET NEXT YEAR!!!! “NO BONUSES FOR SAVING MONEY”, JUST THE WEIRD NOTION THAT IF YOU DIDN’T SPEND IT THIS YEAR YOU MUST NOT HAVE NEEDED IT, SOOOOOO YOU WONT GET IT EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!! My family has been involved with the military for 3 generations, & there has NEVER Ever Been A REWARD For SAVING the government money…JUST A REWARD FOR SPENDING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is outrageous! And for this they all get bonuses?
And after the veterans all die, that’ll be the hospitals for the illegals. This is maddening
ITS NOT WRIGHT .
Sounds Like support for the Presidents Programs !!
i AM ON a hold could die anytime. My Breathing is so bad But VA says need more information?
The money should be spent on the veterans. But then that was the old america when we had adults in charge.
THIS IS WRONG!!! NOW CURE THE PROBLEM.
if you believe what this post says you have no common sense