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.
they postponed a friend of mine that was a army special forces green beret vietnam vet his treatment for so long he is now dead because of it.did not deserve to go out like that.didnt have a fighting chance.r.i.p.tommy miss you my friend.
the government throws money away on other countries and here at home. the vets should never have to want for anything. if it was not for all of them we would not have a free country
FOR HARM AND DAMAGES ME JOULE WILL KILL FEW NUMBERS OF PEOPLE IN DIS COUNTRY NIGERIA WEST AFRICA FOR HARM AND DAMAGES
THIS IS SO WRONG OUR VETS DESERVE BETTER THEN WHAT THE DAM GOVERNMENT IO S GIVING THEM THEY GIVE PEOPLE ON WELFARE BETTER THEN THESE VETS WHO GO OUT TO WAR TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS STOP ALL THIS C**P WITH THE WELFARE MAKE THEM GO OUT & WORK GIVE BETTER CARE TO OUR VETS WHO DESERVE MUCH MORE
WHEN WILL THE REAL AMERICANS STAND UP?!!!!!!
All politicians should have had to serve in the military for at least four years before qualified to run for an office!
Same old BS from this White House.
the money given to the VA must be used for our heros that need treatments and if it isn’t then heads must roll and all money must be accounted for by the officials of the VA.
Also all presidential candidates should be required to be US born to run. Oh wait. That is already a requirement unless you are a democrat. 🙁
corruption at work. where does it stop. the veterans pay for their corrupt thievery we allow them too abuse our vets. why. fire every frecking one then follow the hidden money accounts. these scabs, know how too steal cash ,and make others pay for it. if they were smart, they would all come forward with the facts. news media, first. then congress. send copies ,keep the originals hidden. they will come looking.