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.
Sickening!!
Where is the publicity that this deserve? Where the hell is the outrage!!!?
OBUMMER HATES THE U.S.A. AND THE VETS HE IS A MUSLIM NOT AMERICAN. SO WE THE PEOPLE ARE AT WAR AGAINST ALL THE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
hello our men/women vets need that money for them so use the money to help them please. aren’t they worth it. they lost there legs or arms some more than one body part come on show some love and respect
Obama Knew this !
of course the king knew about…fox in the hen house gets to do whatever lil foxy’s heart desires….bring the US down to the third world country he wants us to be….equal equal equal….
Yeah , I’ve seen them installing them in the Va Hosp I go to here in Southern Calif. They’re much more important than the Vets that need to be Taken care of ! How Screwed up is this Country going to get , before We The People Stop It ! ! !
Wrong
I am a veteran;my only experiance with the Va medical system has been all positive:I do not have injuries such as these guy’s returning from current war zones and can only attest to our Local VA in Lincoln and Omaha,Nebraska:I have not heard any complaints on any visits,for doctor appointments or testing.If there are people with any major complaints they must be keeping to them selves.May be the Other VA facilities should spend a little time researching what the midwest does that works;it might improve their facility operation!
stupied, take care of our vetrans and forget wind and solar they are more important they put their life on the line for us!!!!!!