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 $14.7 million between 2010 and 2012 to install solar panels on the roof of its medical center. The contract was awarded to REC Solar, the sixth-largest recipient of stimulus funds from the VA.
During the time of the solar project, one patient at the Tucson, Ariz., hospital died of colon cancer after not getting a routine colonoscopy. That death was revealed in a fact sheet the VA released in early April after an internal investigation.
GOD Help our Military & VA
TOTAL BULL$#%&!@*,I’ HAVE NOT SEEN MY DOC.SINCE I GOT HIM MAY OF LAST YR. AND I HAVE YET TO SEE HIM.
Yes, The VA wants us all to die. The latest started in February 2013 when I let the VA operate on me and put in two implants. I ended up in the hospital for 3 1/2 weeks in severe pain, passing blood, stopping up and almost died. They just wanted to keep me on drugs for the pain. The implants never worked right. I was always in pain and passing blood. In August 2013, it was getting worse and the Urology clinic would not see me again without another referral It took over 4 weeks to get the referral from my doctor. I went back to the urology clinic, I was in pain, passing blood, and stopping up. They were trying to put me off until the 23 of December f 2013. I ended up in the emergency room in severe pain and stopped up and the doctors at the urology clinic would not even come down. After another trip to the emergency room. The doctors in the emergency room at the VA, put a Foley cather in me and I had a sinker valve that was causing the problem and the foley cather caused more damage. I went to the Methodists hospital on 249, spent several days in the hospital, then was sent to St. Joseph to see an expert on the urology implant, he put me in the hospital right away, removed one of the implants, repaired the other and since then I’ve been recovering and healing. The VA had left a hole in my pee tube and it was infected “bad” The two doctors that I saw out side of the VA, both called the main doctor in the Urology clinic, of course nothing happen. I will never let the VA touch me again. They are a bunch of liars. Right now I cannot get far from the rest room, but almost healed, healing takes forever. When I’m healed the doctor will replace the implant. This is not the first time the VA has treated me wrong, there are many more, but it is the first time they nearly killed me. I’m still under treatment by Dr Cornell and will be for several more months. His last statement to me was that the doctors and the people that put the cather in caused a lot of damage and now he has a lot to repair.
Blame Obama when conservatives block almost every VA bill…
Dumbest Americans ever…
Disgraceful !!!
If you vote republican after the last 6 years you are just an uneducated uninformed idiot…
They haven’t passed or offered a single idea to help the American people… Every republican voted down the first 2 attempts to help veterans…
Go $#%&!@* yourself you uneducated hillbillies
Yet these ILLEGAL MEXICANS STEAL our health benefits and drive OUR costs up …OWEBAMA needs not impreached JAILED..he has broken the laws 200 times since the RETARDS ELECTED HIM’
morons in the hot seat.screw a bunch of solar panels
Democrats love people being on welfare, I guess that’s why they don’t mind all the abuse of the system. I’m not saying people don’t need help but it’s used for a temporary fix not to live on for life and illegals can get it easier than anyone alse. But our vets can’t get $#%&!@*.
I’M A VET, BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE JOIN TODAYS MILITARY, IT’S THE SAME SYTEM US OLD TIMERS FOUGHT AGAINST WHILE WE WERE IN THE SERVICE….