It’s one of those promises the president would probably like to forget.
In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly seems even worse.
WND has discovered that during his transition into the White House in 2008-09, President Obama proposed in his “Obama-Biden” plan to “make the VA a leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care possible.”
However, instead of fixing the VA, the administration has had to defend its role in the death of veterans by neglect.
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In the document labeled the Obama-Biden Plan from the Office of the President Elect, Obama makes a series of promises to veterans, including:
- Fix the Benefits Bureaucracy: Hire additional claims workers, and improve training and accountability so that VA benefit decisions are rated fairly and consistently. Transform the paper benefit claims process to an electronic one to reduce errors and improve timeliness.
- Strengthen VA Care: Make the VA a leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care possible. Improve care for polytrauma vision impairment, prosthetics, spinal cord injury, aging, and women’s health.
- Fully Fund VA Medical Care: Fully fund the VA so it has all the resources it needs to serve the veterans who need it, when they need it. Establish a world-class VA Planning Division to avoid future budget shortfalls.
The Obama-Biden plan seems to have fallen so far short of its promise to “Fix the Benefits Bureaucracy” that the VA itself has admitted 23 vets have died waiting for care, and investigations of possible death-by-neglect have spread to 26 VA facilities around the country...Read the Full Story HERE.
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Rahm Emanuel -- Obama's Former Chief of Staff:
"You never want a serious CRISIS to go to waste.”
So, Team Obama pass the gigantic Obamacare law
-- a signature achievement.
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It is less well known that the 2008 Financial CRISIS
has a long history:
long before the economic meltdown, the story of
one woman who tried to WARN about
the threat to the Financial System.
She saw something that people either had not seen
or refused to see. And she tried to sound the WARNING.
Nobody listened.
Before the TOXIC assets POISONED the Economy,
she WARNED of their DANGER. And that made her
the ENEMY of a very, very large number of people.
She would fight an EPIC BATTLE
with one of the most powerful men in Washington.
It got pretty nasty pretty quickly. A story from inside
the highest levels of the CLINTON administration.
They were all part of a very concerted effort
to shut her up and to shut her down.
And they did, in fact,
SHUT HER UP and SHUT HER DOWN.
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Brooksley Born, who speaks about her failed campaign
to regulate the SECRETIVE,
multiTRILLION-dollar DERIVATIVES Market whose CRASH
helped TRIGGER the Financial COLLAPSE in the fall of 2008.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/etc/script.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/
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The Warning: Brooksley Born's Battle With
Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin And Larry Summers
www.businessinsider.com/the-warning-brooksley-borns-battle-with-alan-greenspan-robert-rubin-and-larry-summers-2009-10
heroine
Brooksley Born
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born
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The troubled start to the age of ObamaCare
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The president has been selectively
implementing the health-care reform law
as well as adding regulations to it,
and he’d prefer the LAWLESSNESS and
inherent CRONYISM of ObamaCare
not be exposed to too much sunlight.
The whole point of ObamaCare was
to upend the entire health-care system,
regardless of the fact that Democrats had to
lie about it REPEATEDLEY and brazenly
in order to get the bill passed.
ObamaCare’s coverage expansion rested on
two pillars. The first was
an explicit government program,
Medicaid -- a failed and expensive program.
The second pillar was to
kick millions of Americans off
their insurance policies
and mandate by law
that they buy a new policy.
It’s designed to enable the government
to CONTROL the health-insurance market
by greatly restricting LEGAL health-care plans,
raising the prices for those
the government thinks can pay and
offering subsidies to those who can’t.
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www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/05/20/were-still-talking-about-obamacare-because-obama-designed-it-that-way/
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