Why the VA Scandal Is the Real Outrage

[doxydad]

If you’ve ever been seriously sick or helped a family member who is, you know how dark it can get. In the hospital, you look to every doctor or nurse who throws back that curtain and punches the hand sanitizer machine as if they have the answer, but they don’t. This test or that test will tell us more, you’re told, or we’ll know more after one more bag is hooked up and drained. If you’re on a slower track, it’s just a gauntlet of appointments weeks away, tests on different floors or in different buildings, illegible return visit dates scribbled on little cards, lost parking tickets you can’t validate, endless pill trays.

This is what it’s like even if everything goes relatively smoothly and you get care: It’s scary and helpless. Now imagine if you experienced it with the inefficiency of the worst experience you’ve ever had with customer service. That’s what’s happening in some cases at Veteran Affairs clinics and hospitals around the country: People at their most acute moments of need are being ignored and forgotten.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/05/veterans_affairs_scandal_why_the_treatment_of_our_veterans_is_a_genuine.html


Ant the Tea-Hadists perpetually vote down any authorization for our Troops. Those sonsabitches.

[antiquie]

1. End the shame, fund the VA. ~ nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Ding, ding ding! We have a winnah!

The true scandal is that the VA is underfunded and understaffed. No one would have even thought up the 'hidden list' scam if there actually were enough appointments available to see Vets in a timely fashion. For all the 'support our troops' crap Republican pretend to, the REALITY of supporting them means voting to spend real money to build hospitals and clinics, and hire more doctors and nurses to treat them. But do Republicans do that? No, they scream for the heads of people who don't have the resources to actually do the jobs demanded of them, while totally ignoring the need to better fund the VA.

[sorefeet]

2. Dear VA doctor

Do you REALLY wonder why 22 Vets commit suicide every fucking day?????? When the GI walked out of the VA clinic, sat down on the steps and blew his fucking brains out, you don't know why????????
It's starts with you doc. OPEN your God damned fucking mouth. Are you fucking blind, you know when POLICY IS BAD but you don't say a fucking word. YOU won't ever put me in that dark place of suicide ever again. I now know who you are. A puppet for bad policy makers. MAKE WAVES????? You bet your fucking chicken shit ass I will make waves. It's a fact you won't and my fellow brothers and sisters are dying every day because of it.