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.
oh and lets don’t forget the BONUSES,,,,
next time don’t go , because you are stupid, Israel took trillion of dollars from your country and you become a cripple and your country too. and you stupid after oil and $#%&!@*ing woman. now only one thing save you go and work with uae and wipe israel, and russia.
Disgustingly sad!!!!
E Maam Akher is having a hissy !! Why screw with the UAE when they are busy screwing themselves ?? For a couple of millenniums now !!
I am so sorry
Abuse of Veterans have been going on for years. These brave people need to be treated with respect and the best care they can possibly receive.
@E Maam Akher and we will give them another trillion dollars to protect Israel from people like you!!!!! God bless Christians United for Israel (CUFI)l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The “o” gang strikes again….
GET THE PRIORITIES STRAAAAIGHT….. VETS FIIIIIIIIIIIRST
Apparently that is what the VA thinks. I think the money should have been spent getting the Veterans proper medical care.