At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system, many of whom were placed on a secret waiting list.
The secret list was part of an elaborate scheme designed by Veterans Affairs managers in Phoenix who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources.
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Thomas Breen was so proud of his time in the Navy
that he wanted to be treated only at a VA facility, his
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For six months, CNN has been reporting on extended delays in health care appointments suffered by veterans across the country and who died while waiting for appointments and care. But the new revelations about the Phoenix VA are perhaps the most disturbing and striking to come to light thus far.
Internal e-mails obtained by CNN show that top management at the VA hospital in Arizona knew about the practice and even defended it.
Dr. Sam Foote just retired after spending 24 years with the VA system in Phoenix. The veteran doctor told CNN in an exclusive interview that the Phoenix VA works off two lists for patient appointments:
There's an "official" list that's shared with officials in Washington and shows the VA has been providing timely appointments, which Foote calls a sham list. And then there's the real list that's hidden from outsiders, where wait times can last more than a year.Read the rest HERE and view related videos below:
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2 comments:
These LOW LIFE pieces of crap need to be brought to justice. Then once the pieces of crap are brought to justice, then they all need to be SENTENCED TO DEATH. How dare they murder our MILITARY VETERANS, OUR MILITARY fights for all of our FREEDOMS, and this is how the piece of craps repay by MURDERING them. How in the heck can they deny them medical coverage by putting our MILITARY VETERANS on some list. I bet our FOUNDING FATHERS are rolling over in their graves. How much more of what is being allowed to go on in our GREAT NATION ARE WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GOING TO ALLOW THIS or anything else that WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE CERTAIN THINGS GOING ON IN OUR GREAT NATION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WE THE AMERICAN NEED TO RISE UP, RISE UP LIKE NOW.
Hey,get the govt. ot of healthcare and it WILL become affordable. Its a product like anything else. People can not afford to pay exorbitant costs , under a true free market it will become affordable. The healthcare companies , manufacturers aren't going to make a produc that their target audience CAN'T afford. The govt. has inserted itself and trys to put cost controls in which always result in HIGHER costs (uninteneded consequences) . This always happens when cost controls are mandated.Thank you so much!!!
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