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taking care of our own.
IIn a disturbing glimpse at America’s original government-run healthcare system, the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system in Virginia reportedly placed more than 1,600 veterans on a secret waiting list for healthcare.
originally posted by: MentorsRiddle
In seriousness - This is disgusting. And this type of thing will happen more and more as time goes on due to socialistic healthcare.
Foote says the Phoenix wait times reported back to Washington were entirely fictitious. "So then when they did that, they would report to Washington, 'Oh yeah. We're makin' our appointments within -- within 10 days, within the 14-day frame,' when in reality it had been six, nine, in some cases 21 months," he said.
originally posted by: MentorsRiddle
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In seriousness - This is disgusting. And this type of thing will happen more and more as time goes on due to socialistic healthcare.
originally posted by: MentorsRiddle
Brought to you by the company that introduced Obamacare!
Sign up now for your free death today!
In seriousness - This is disgusting. And this type of thing will happen more and more as time goes on due to socialistic healthcare.
Teddy says his Brooklyn-raised father was so proud of his military service that he would go nowhere but the VA for treatment. On September 28, 2013, with blood in his urine and a history of cancer, Teddy and his wife, Sally, rushed his father to the Phoenix VA emergency room, where he was examined and sent home to wait.
"They wrote on his chart that it was urgent," said Sally, her father-in-law's main caretaker. The family has obtained the chart from the VA that clearly states the "urgency" as "one week" for Breen to see a primary care doctor or at least a urologist, for the concerns about the blood in the urine.
originally posted by: Expat888
Typical .. once your of no use to uncle scam .. had many friends over the years die due to v.a incompetence , and waiting for treatment from v.a facilities ..
Sadly 40 is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to deaths due to the v.a ..
originally posted by: crazyewok
...Its not socialistic healthcare that's the problem is the useless US implementation of it that is.
Before the ACA screwed things up the USA was already bottom of the Developed world for healthcare.
But I guess even after fighting and bleeding for the country Vets should just be left to pay for the healthcare themselves and F them if they cant pay?
originally posted by: Bedlam
Is this new? In the past, once they decided they'd laid out enough money on you, they'd "lose your records".