Problems With VA Medical Care

[guido911]

Just got to spend a few days with brother in law in Knoxville area who has been using VA facilities for many years - from his military service in the Viet Nam era.  We got to have some good conversations.  He said he has never had better care that in the last 4 or 5 years - and he says it is excellent!  The people are friendly, courteous, responsive, prompt, and BEST of all, he has been getting real help for some of the issues he has survived with over the previous 40 years of neglect.

But then, by whatever means it has happened - either by accident or intentional - the increased spending of the last few years is making improvements.


Typical Congress  BS - get rid of the guy - Shinseki - who had actually started to have some positive effect on the situation.  But I guess that's what ya do when ya can't accept personal responsibility for one's own inaction....the inaction of Congress!!


And oh, yeah....   Forbes??   Really....?  That's what you got??  Come on...you are better than that!!  I've seen it before!

I guess if your kin approves of the VA, then the 40 or so vets that may have died in Phoenix on a wait list means nothing.    You are way on the wrong side of this one, as both Dems and Rs wanted Shinseki gone--especially after that devastating OIG report.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2014/05/29/va-inspector-general-verifies-wait-time-manipulations/9707679/

[Conan71]

That shows you really aren't recovering.....you need to change that label.

Uh meaning she is pleasing to look at when you can't hear what she's spouting out of her mouth.  If you don't find her evenly marginally physically attractive you need to turn in your hetero card

[heironymouspasparagus]

I guess if your kin approves of the VA, then the 40 or so vets that may have died in Phoenix on a wait list means nothing.    You are way on the wrong side of this one, as both Dems and Rs wanted Shinseki gone--especially after that devastating OIG report.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2014/05/29/va-inspector-general-verifies-wait-time-manipulations/9707679/

Actually, what I AM doing is pointing out the FACT that this is NOT a new thing - see previous posts - it DOES go back decades, and the changes that have been started are having an effect.  Anyone with at least half a brain - and that excludes the vast majority of Faux news mouth-breathers - would understand that changes to a large entity of any kind take a great deal of time - and erasing 70 years of Congress caused neglect is gonna take more than 5 years!


And if you listen to "Mr. Miller" - and I use the term "Mr." so loosely as to resemble the results of contaminated food ingestion - saying they "are deadly serious...you can expect us to be over your shoulder every single day..."  First question is, why did it take until NOW for Miller to get interested, since the OIG has been reporting this issue SINCE July 2005!  And that the issues had been ongoing for some time before that?  Just curious....

He has been there since 2001.  And on the Armed Services committees - since 107th Congress.  We are now in the 113th Congress.  Why did he do nothing until NOW???   Oh, yeah.... it wasn't Obama before.....

[guido911]

Well, since there is a consensus as to who is to blame for the VA mess. I guess we can forget about it now and move on.

http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-almost-80-of-americans-obama-responsible-va-scandal-2014-6

[heironymouspasparagus]

Well, since there is a consensus as to who is to blame for the VA mess. I guess we can forget about it now and move on.

http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-almost-80-of-americans-obama-responsible-va-scandal-2014-6

Just like that same 80% thought Viet Nam was a good idea at the time, while rational people knew better.

And 90% or so were all about getting Iraq in 2003, as talked about elsewhere - when in reality, it was the wrong thing to do.  But hey, 80% has got to be right, huh??

Like the 80% or so who used to think global climate issues were false.....

[guido911]

Just like that same 80% thought Viet Nam was a good idea at the time, while rational people knew better.

And 90% or so were all about getting Iraq in 2003, as talked about elsewhere - when in reality, it was the wrong thing to do.  But hey, 80% has got to be right, huh??

Like the 80% or so who used to think global climate issues were false.....

[heironymouspasparagus]

Ahhhh....how cute!!


Way wrong, but cute.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Well, since there is a consensus as to who is to blame for the VA mess. I guess we can forget about it now and move on.

And there is always this....


If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.