Sun Devil 92
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Ladies and gentlemen, I've found another one.No it doesn't.The nurses I know say that they would rather go into public if they needed it. They've worked in private and they say its understaffed and the doctors are worse.This sounds like a pilot program for ObamaCare!
In order to deal with a backlog of requests for medical care, the health care bureaucrat vanguard stationed in the Veterans Administration decided to destroy the records...and voila! Much less backlog!
This is what we should expect as the ginormous snowball of ObamaCare Fake Coverage causes a big backlog of requests for care in networks that are too small to handle the demand.
Hopenchange!
mployees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) destroyed veterans medical files in a systematic attempt to eliminate backlogged veteran medical exam requests, a former VA employee told The Daily Caller.
Audio of an internal VA meeting obtained by TheDC confirms that VA officials in Los Angeles intentionally canceled backlogged patient exam requests.
The committee was called System Redesign and the purpose of the meeting was to figure out ways to correct the departments efficiency. And one of the issues at the time was the backlog, Oliver Mitchell, a Marine veteran and former patient services assistant in the VA Greater Los Angeles Medical Center, told TheDC.
We just didnt have the resources to conduct all of those exams. Basically we would get about 3,000 requests a month for [medical] exams, but in a 30-day period we only had the resources to do about 800. That rolls over to the next month and creates a backlog, Mitchell said. Its a numbers thing. The waiting list counts against the hospitals efficiency. The longer the veteran waits for an exam that counts against the hospital as far as productivity is concerned.
By 2008, some patients were waiting six to nine months for an exam and VA didnt know how to address the issue, Mitchell said.
VA Greater Los Angeles Radiology department chief Dr. Suzie El-Saden initiated an ongoing discussion in the department to cancel exam requests and destroy veterans medical files so that no record of the exam requests would exist, thus reducing the backlog, Mitchell said.
Audio from a November 2008 meeting obtained by TheDC depicts VA Greater Los Angeles officials plotting to cancel backlogged exam requests.
Im still canceling orders from 2001, said a male official in the meeting.
Anything over a year old should be canceled, replied a female official.
Canceled or scheduled? asked the male official.
Canceled.
Read more: VA destroyed veteran medical records to delete exam requests | The Daily Caller
Take heed all of you who want government sponsored universal healthcare in the Canadian/British stripe. You'll end up getting getting the quality of care they get at the VA; a place so filled with mediocrity that the only doctors who work there are the ones who can't gain employment anywhere else.
Nah, private holds them to a higher standard where they actually need to work and can be fired easily. Public guarantees them a job where they can get away with mediocrity, a pension, and gain job security via a firing process whereas the only way you could lay someone off is that they happen to commit suicide while on the job. And even then they would need to go through the normal 10 year layoff procedure. Just to think that the VA has screwed thousands of vets (many of the died) and hardly anyone one gets fired. My God the horror stories I could tell you about the VA.
I remember this from way back them.
Funny.