Thursday, May 29, 2014
Severe Report Finds V.A. Hid Waiting Lists
This article has to do with the current Veteran Affairs scandal. A Phoenix veteran medical center is accused of neglecting to place 1,700 patients on the official waiting list and potentially restricting them from receiving care at all. VA officials in Phoenix have also been accused by whistleblowers of hiding from the public the long waiting times veterans experience when they try to get care. According to Richard J. Griffin, the department's inspector general, the manipulation and corruption in Phoenix are representative of systemic problems in the VA healthcare system.
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It disgusts me that this level of mismanagement and neglect was found at a hospital for veterans. Veterans are some of the bravest people in our country and deserve all that we can give them for their sacrifices. I hope the person responsible for this repulsive amount of neglect is found and swiftly replaced by someone who will be able to do a much better job.
ReplyDeleteVeterans should receive access to quality health care—something that clearly does not occur in this case. It does, however, illustrate the danger in letting the government run health care. Should we ever reach socialized medicine (we have not with Obamacare), these kind of issues would become mainstream (as they do in nearly every other developed nation). This is why repealing Obamacare is so crucial: it is a step down a road we must not go (on top of the fact that Obamacare itself is an absolute disaster).
ReplyDeleteI would like to point out to Andrew that I grew up in Canada where there is "socialized medicine" and I never encountered anything like this. These delays and administrative failures are completely unacceptable. I'm sure as the investigation continues more and more evidence of neglect will come up.
ReplyDeleteClearly we're all in agreement that our veterans shouldn't have to go through this type of negligence. I really hope that this is cleared up and nothing like this ever happens again. However, it's kind of upsetting that stuff like this gets into the news because they are veterans. There are other people that go through this that are important as well, and they're not getting too much attention.
ReplyDeleteSticking to the matter at hand, such treatment of people in need of assistance is unacceptable. Whether that person is a veteran or an elderly shoe shiner, if they are in need of care they should not be disregarded and made to wait dangerously long periods of time. Veterans especially, who may struggle with physical and emotional problems, should receive the care they need and to be denied that care is a criminal act.
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else, I think the bad medical service for veterns is awful and has to be fixed. As far as Andrew's comment about socialized medicine. As the daughter of two doctors, I can guarantee that bureacracy is definitely not limited to public medicine. In fact, the one of the biggest bureaucratic inefficiencies caused by the private health sector is insurance companies. Back to the article at hand, there definitely needs to be a revanping of thr VA system.
ReplyDeleteThis is just plain disgusting. These men and women put their lives on the line to protect our country, and yet our country can't take care if them. Having had multiple veteran influences in my life, I have witnessed first hand the disorder in the V.A. Big changes need to happen, and fast, these people risk too much to be treated with such neglect
ReplyDeleteMy dad actually works for the Va hospital in Philadelphia. Things like this do make the Va system of healthcare look bad, and because of it my father has seen improvements in the hospital here. It is unfortunate for the people in Phoenix as they deserve much better than this as the Va hospitals are held to a higher standard, but at least as a result the other Va hospitals are making changes to improve.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. Veterans are some of the most important people in society. For this to happen is abysmal and there needs to be mass firing in that hospital. They need to make changes to improve.
ReplyDeleteIt just doesn't make sense to me as to why this neglect happened in the first place. I can't wait for the whole story to arise because this is just shocking. As Dan said, no one, veteran or not, should have to suffer this kind of neglect, but especially veterans. I really have no other words for this because I am truly confused as to who could screw up this badly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Dan completely. These people deserve treatment in a timely manner no matter who they are. The government has said they will take care of the veterans' healthcare, but they are doing a poor job. Many of these people ave no where else to go to be treated, and they must trust in a system that neglects so many. Veterans deserve a healthcare system they can have faith in.
ReplyDeleteVeterans deserve a lot more than they are given in this country. A lot of Americans take them for granted. If the ones who make our country possible need care, then we should drop what we are doing and give it to them.
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else, I'm appalled by the condition of our VA Healthcare. Dan is right: no one deserves this kind of neglect. I actually posted a similar article on this same issue at a VA Hospital in Florida way earlier in the year, which just goes to show that this problem isn't localized in Phoenix. These issues of neglect and mismanagement are present in a lot of places and need immediate attention. People's lives are at stake. Specifically people that have given their service to our country.
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