Government healthcare? Ask vets....now wait 50% longer after "reforms" of VA...

[2aguy]

Yes....let's give complete control of American healthcare to the government that can't provide it to a small population of military veterans.....

Bureaucracy at Work Veteran Wait Times 50 Percent Longer After VA Scandal - Katie Pavlich

Fast forward one year later and the problem has gotten significantly worse, not better. In fact, wait times for veterans have increased by 50 percent. In other words, it's still being tolerated. More from AP:

The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion, the Times reported in a story posted online ahead of its Sunday editions. The agency is considering furloughs, hiring freezes and other significant moves to reduce the gap, the newspaper reported.


So what's the problem and how in the world could things have gotten any worse? Especially after thousands of veterans reportedly died waiting for care?

The VA is blaming the increase on an influx of unexpected patients. Keep in mind that despite claims from McDonald he's fired dozens of people, he's actually fired no one for lying about wait times, cooking the books or the gross mishandling of veteran needs.

 

[tigerred59]

Yes....let's give complete control of American healthcare to the government that can't provide it to a small population of military veterans.....

Bureaucracy at Work Veteran Wait Times 50 Percent Longer After VA Scandal - Katie Pavlich

Fast forward one year later and the problem has gotten significantly worse, not better. In fact, wait times for veterans have increased by 50 percent. In other words, it's still being tolerated. More from AP:

The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion, the Times reported in a story posted online ahead of its Sunday editions. The agency is considering furloughs, hiring freezes and other significant moves to reduce the gap, the newspaper reported.


So what's the problem and how in the world could things have gotten any worse? Especially after thousands of veterans reportedly died waiting for care?

The VA is blaming the increase on an influx of unexpected patients. Keep in mind that despite claims from McDonald he's fired dozens of people, he's actually fired no one for lying about wait times, cooking the books or the gross mishandling of veteran needs.

As a veteran I can speak on this.....Going to the VA long before OBama came on the scene was a nightmare back in the 80's and is a nightmare today. There are few VET hospitals, too few VET doctors and yes, the wait is horrific...and ACA has absolutely nothing to do with it....get your facts straight!! PALEEEEEEZZZEE

 

[Claudette]

Yes....let's give complete control of American healthcare to the government that can't provide it to a small population of military veterans.....

Bureaucracy at Work Veteran Wait Times 50 Percent Longer After VA Scandal - Katie Pavlich

Fast forward one year later and the problem has gotten significantly worse, not better. In fact, wait times for veterans have increased by 50 percent. In other words, it's still being tolerated. More from AP:

The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion, the Times reported in a story posted online ahead of its Sunday editions. The agency is considering furloughs, hiring freezes and other significant moves to reduce the gap, the newspaper reported.


So what's the problem and how in the world could things have gotten any worse? Especially after thousands of veterans reportedly died waiting for care?

The VA is blaming the increase on an influx of unexpected patients. Keep in mind that despite claims from McDonald he's fired dozens of people, he's actually fired no one for lying about wait times, cooking the books or the gross mishandling of veteran needs.

I just heard this on the news. Hell. If they can't meet the needs of the vets how the hell does anyone think those clowns could run health care for 300 million Americans.

No fucking way.

 

[tigerred59]

Yes....let's give complete control of American healthcare to the government that can't provide it to a small population of military veterans.....

Bureaucracy at Work Veteran Wait Times 50 Percent Longer After VA Scandal - Katie Pavlich

Fast forward one year later and the problem has gotten significantly worse, not better. In fact, wait times for veterans have increased by 50 percent. In other words, it's still being tolerated. More from AP:

The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion, the Times reported in a story posted online ahead of its Sunday editions. The agency is considering furloughs, hiring freezes and other significant moves to reduce the gap, the newspaper reported.


So what's the problem and how in the world could things have gotten any worse? Especially after thousands of veterans reportedly died waiting for care?

The VA is blaming the increase on an influx of unexpected patients. Keep in mind that despite claims from McDonald he's fired dozens of people, he's actually fired no one for lying about wait times, cooking the books or the gross mishandling of veteran needs.

I just heard this on the news. Hell. If they can't meet the needs of the vets how the hell does anyone think those clowns could run health care for 300 million Americans.

No fucking way.

Please educate yourselves before you come whining here about Obama and vets....the facts are this, thanks to Bush and this ungodly war he started with Iraq, this country is being inadated with disabled veterans.....the system, thanks to Bush wasn't set up to handle this many disabled vets. Prior to Bush and this effin war, the veteran hospitals were handling left over Veitnam vets and the older crowds....now, its thousands upon thousands seeking vet help and thanks to congress, who keeps allocating money for wars, but not the building of more veteran hospitals and doctors. I use to use the vet hospitals back in the 80's early 90's and it was nightmare back then....ACA is not the problem....yaw need to get your facts straight, or stop talking about shit you don't understand.

 

[2aguy]

Yes....let's give complete control of American healthcare to the government that can't provide it to a small population of military veterans.....

Bureaucracy at Work Veteran Wait Times 50 Percent Longer After VA Scandal - Katie Pavlich

Fast forward one year later and the problem has gotten significantly worse, not better. In fact, wait times for veterans have increased by 50 percent. In other words, it's still being tolerated. More from AP:

The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion, the Times reported in a story posted online ahead of its Sunday editions. The agency is considering furloughs, hiring freezes and other significant moves to reduce the gap, the newspaper reported.


So what's the problem and how in the world could things have gotten any worse? Especially after thousands of veterans reportedly died waiting for care?

The VA is blaming the increase on an influx of unexpected patients. Keep in mind that despite claims from McDonald he's fired dozens of people, he's actually fired no one for lying about wait times, cooking the books or the gross mishandling of veteran needs.

I just heard this on the news. Hell. If they can't meet the needs of the vets how the hell does anyone think those clowns could run health care for 300 million Americans.

No fucking way.

Please educate yourselves before you come whining here about Obama and vets....the facts are this, thanks to Bush and this ungodly war he started with Iraq, this country is being inadated with disabled veterans.....the system, thanks to Bush wasn't set up to handle this many disabled vets. Prior to Bush and this effin war, the veteran hospitals were handling left over Veitnam vets and the older crowds....now, its thousands upon thousands seeking vet help and thanks to congress, who keeps allocating money for wars, but not the building of more veteran hospitals and doctors. I use to use the vet hospitals back in the 80's early 90's and it was nightmare back then....ACA is not the problem....yaw need to get your facts straight, or stop talking about shit you don't understand.

He deposed a threat and took care of another threat, the first threat had violated the ceasefire from the first war making him top of the list for military action....

Please...I know lefties have no memory past the morning they wake up....but don't lecture those of us who do.....

 

[2aguy]

Yes....let's give complete control of American healthcare to the government that can't provide it to a small population of military veterans.....

Bureaucracy at Work Veteran Wait Times 50 Percent Longer After VA Scandal - Katie Pavlich

Fast forward one year later and the problem has gotten significantly worse, not better. In fact, wait times for veterans have increased by 50 percent. In other words, it's still being tolerated. More from AP:

The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion, the Times reported in a story posted online ahead of its Sunday editions. The agency is considering furloughs, hiring freezes and other significant moves to reduce the gap, the newspaper reported.


So what's the problem and how in the world could things have gotten any worse? Especially after thousands of veterans reportedly died waiting for care?

The VA is blaming the increase on an influx of unexpected patients. Keep in mind that despite claims from McDonald he's fired dozens of people, he's actually fired no one for lying about wait times, cooking the books or the gross mishandling of veteran needs.

As a veteran I can speak on this.....Going to the VA long before OBama came on the scene was a nightmare back in the 80's and is a nightmare today. There are few VET hospitals, too few VET doctors and yes, the wait is horrific...and ACA has absolutely nothing to do with it....get your facts straight!! PALEEEEEEZZZEE

Listen....the same government runs both.....and if they can't handle the healthcare of a tiny population of Americans, why on earth did you idiots think it was a better idea to let them handle the healthcare of an exponentially greater number of Americans?