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Friday, December 30, 2016

GOPDD: VA Reform: Team Trump Announces Potential Private Healthcare Option For Veterans

Dec 29, 2016 by William Smith

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t tapped a VA Secretary yet, but yesterday his transition team announced plans for VA reform will include allowing veterans to seek private healthcare options. From the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Trump is considering changing the department to allow some veterans to bypass the VA heath-care system completely and get care exclusively from private-sector hospitals and clinics, the official said. It is an option that could give veterans full choice over their health care, but which many veterans groups argue is the first step toward privatization and one that will reduce the quality of health care over the long term.

Friday, December 2, 2016

GOPDD: Tomah VA: 600 Veterans Potentially Infected With HIV, Hepatitis by the VA

Dec 1, 2016 by Harry Hibbs

VA administrators made the announcement Tuesday afternoon at a press conference.
Nearly 600 veterans who were being treated at a VA facility in Wisconsin may have been infected with several types of diseases due to violations of infection control protocol.
Some of those diseases include HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. The facility, in Tomah, Wisconsin, is in the process of notifying 592 veterans that they may have become infected,.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

EAGLE RISING: Dying Veteran Warned His Congressman of VA Abuses – Democrats Did Nothing

Written by eaglerising

A veteran who died of a lethal combination of drugs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) desperately called a Democratic congressman in the months before his death.

Jason Simcakoski knew he was being medicated into a dangerous state and was trying to get the FBI to look into the situation. He also called his congressman, Democratic Rep. Ron Kind

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. Simcakoski called Kind’s Washington, D.C. office Nov. 8, 2013, and spoke for eight minutes. Minutes before that, he had called the VA police. Simcakoski died at the hospital in August, 2014.

Monday, May 23, 2016

FREEDOM FORCE: Veterans Disgraced By This Ignorant Comment

The Veteran Affairs Office has been malfunctioning at high levels for decades, and now one official has made an abhorrent statement.
Robert McDonald, a Veteran’s Affairs Secretary had the audacity to recently compare the tremendous wait times for VA services to days when the Disney World theme park has long lines.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

FREE BEACON: Document Shredding at VA Facilities a ‘Systemic Issue’

Watchdog: Agency policy leads staffers to destroy claims without reviewing them

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BY: Morgan Chalfant
April 15, 2016 2:00 pm

Document shredding is a systemic problem at regional offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a watchdog report.
The VA inspector general found that staffers at a majority of regional offices that investigators visited last year improperly sent documents related to veterans’ claims to the shredder, a practice that the watchdog said is a “systemic issue” fueled by VA policy.
The report issued Thursday said that investigators conducted “unannounced inspections” at 10 regional offices after it was discovered last February that staffers at the VA’s Los Angeles office sent mail related to veterans’ claims to the shredder.
At six of the 10 regional offices, staffers improperly sent documents to the shredder without first putting the information in veterans’ claims folders. Sixty-nine of the 155 claims-related documents, or 45 percent, reviewed by investigators were incorrectly sent to the shredder. Two of the documents affected veterans’ benefits, and nine had the potential to do so. While the rest did not affect benefits, they were still required to be included in veterans’ claims folders before being destroyed.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

FREEDOM FORCE: INSANITY: Veterans Administration Has Revoked 260,000 Veterans’ Gun Rights

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INSANITY: Veterans Administration Has Revoked 260,000 Veterans’ Gun Rights in Last 90 Days

By Tim Brown April 3, 2016

The Second Amendment has been under attack for some time now in the united States, and there has been a relentless assault by the Obama administration at attacking the rights of the people to keep and bear arms. At the forefront of that attack has been America’s veterans, and according to a report, at least 260,000 veterans had their gun rights revoked by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs since December 2015.

Monday, March 21, 2016

GOPDD: Obama Told Veterans ‘I Have Your Back’ but VA Problems Persist

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

(Breitbart) In March 2015, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important that veterans know that somebody’s got their backs, and that, if there are problems, that we’re not being defensive about it, not hiding it.” In March 2016, veterans are still having to wait for medical care, and some are dying in the process.

Scandoulous revelations of extended wait times, improper scheduling practices for U.S. veterans, budget mismanagement, insufficient oversight, lack of accountability, and cover-ups, were revealed in 2014 and again in 2015. New reports show that veterans in the country and in Texas are still victims of these practices.

Friday, February 5, 2016

GOPDD: Colorado Veterans Faced Excessive Wait Times, Denied Care

By Jen - Feb 5, 2016

In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 photo, Jerrald Jensen leaves the VA clinic in Golden, Colo., after missing his appointment with a financial advisor. Jensen's motorcycle broke down twice while driving to the appointment from Central City. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Free Beacon Colorado veterans seeking health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs faced excessive wait times and, in some instances, denied care, according to a new watchdog report.

The VA inspector general found that dozens of veterans faced excessive wait times for care at a Colorado Springs outpatient clinic. Long wait times were covered up by scheduling staffers who used the wrong dates to make it appear that patients faced shorter wait times.

Friday, October 30, 2015

GOPDD: Trump Keeps Pledge to Help Wounded Vet He Met at Sioux City Rally (Video)

By clyde - Oct 29, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has already made phone calls on behalf of U.S. Army First Sgt. Todd Landen (Ret.), a wounded veteran who spoke to Trump Tuesday night at a Sioux City, Iowa rally about problems he was having with the Veterans Administration.