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.
Who manufactured the solar panels ? The company taht got the bailout money and then went bankrupt?? This really has a foul ordor.
ANOTHER CLUSTER FUCH FOR HIM HU HU
Just makes you sick!!
FUBAR…!!!!!
steve smith,they been gone for 6 years,lets quit playing the blame game.
Twilight zone!
Liberals put no value on life
ludicrous!
My Family has since it start protected our Soil , my Great Tio is a Medal of Honor & Silver Star to protect these scary Pollitions , it should be Law to be a pollution you should have served in are US Military , my Father died under VA Meds service , the blood shed in Vain of any service personnel is an abomination to what this lazy Vain country , once was , Milk & Honey , may all US service personnel be safe & to restore the dignity this US is Sorely Missing !!!
YOU NEED TO START TAKING CARE OF OUR VETERANS AND QUIT WORRYING ABOUT THE SOLAR PANELS. OUR VETERANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT GET THIS VA MESS TAKEN CARE OF YOU HAVE HAD PLENTY OF TIME