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 needs to stop
This is so horrible, these Vets deserve the one respect and care we have to offer, Obama is at the top of the ladder,..So he needs to take all the blame .
not so if they spend it on our VETS they would get more !!! what kind of MORONS due they hire ????? no not Morons they hire ASS KISSING obamasses
so sad…its greed folks..just greed
A lot of it stems from administration as well. If you go to VISN (Veterans Integrated Service Network) 23 from VISN 12 you notice a huge difference. I Started my VA trek in Nashville VISN 9 and was in awe at how much better Madison VISN 12 was. Minneapolis is barely better than Nashville.
WTF?
Same as any budget of any kind! This is why our country is like it is trillions in debt! If we don’t spend this $ we won’t get it replaced next year philosophy! $#%&!@*ing greedy wasteful bastards!
Please remember the head of the VA is directly under obama in his cabinet.
What a mess!! The vets will all vote republican and get worse treatment!!! It’s the stupid republicans in congress that counts every penny and deciding that vets don’t deserve the penny’s!!
The stupid republicans cut money for consulates and blame President Obama that 4 people died and it’s a big scandal against the President. The Veterns computers are the first made and crappy. For the hospitals are going solar It’t a good thing. Hospitals sola up thousands of dollars in energy. carter put solar on the White House and stupid Reagan tore it off and garbaged it. Now that is totally stupid. If the vets vote republican expect a lot more stupidity to go on. They are taking us back to 2 century’s back. Stupid stupid stupid!!!!
wait til obeymecare kicks in and the gubment is controlling all the healthcare