(hope links work-I am in high wind alert and will probably lose electric power any minute now---)
“Disabled American Veterans (DAV), American Legion (Legion) and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) spoke with the House and Senate veterans’ affairs committees yesterday. During their respective presentations, each warned about “excessively outsourcing” medical treatment for veterans.”
“According to DAV head Garry Augustine, “The bottom line is, if you open up choice to anyone, and they can go anywhere, it will eventually drain resources from the VA.” He continued, “The VA will eventually whither on the vine.”
( Yeah, the vet orgs might whither on the vine..(I think their VA office space is free)....the Choice program could save lives.
This is very concerning to me, because I get news on a Google alert often every day of malpractice issues against the VA. The figure below does not count the potential 50 Million this vet could get:
“The number of medical malpractice payments balloons to 2,483 when you look at all malpractice payments made on the VA’s behalf between 2012-2016. The total amounts to $554.19 million.”
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(hope links work-I am in high wind alert and will probably lose electric power any minute now---)
“Disabled American Veterans (DAV), American Legion (Legion) and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) spoke with the House and Senate veterans’ affairs committees yesterday. During their respective presentations, each warned about “excessively outsourcing” medical treatment for veterans.”
“According to DAV head Garry Augustine, “The bottom line is, if you open up choice to anyone, and they can go anywhere, it will eventually drain resources from the VA.” He continued, “The VA will eventually whither on the vine.”
( Yeah, the vet orgs might whither on the vine..(I think their VA office space is free)....the Choice program could save lives.
http://www.disabledveterans.org/2017/03/02/veterans-organizations-reject-veterans-right-pick-get-care/
This is very concerning to me, because I get news on a Google alert often every day of malpractice issues against the VA. The figure below does not count the potential 50 Million this vet could get:
https://www.theglobaldispatch.com/veterans-medical-malpractice-case-against-va-begins-12049/
But the VA is fighting this case aggressively.
“The number of medical malpractice payments balloons to 2,483 when you look at all malpractice payments made on the VA’s behalf between 2012-2016. The total amounts to $554.19 million.”
http://wncn.com/2017/02/28/veteran-dies-after-medication-error-at-nc-va-hospital/ http://wncn.com/2017/02/28/veteran-dies-after-medication-error-at-nc-va-hospital/
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(hope links work-I am in high wind alert and will probably lose electric power any minute now---) “Disabled American Veterans (DAV), American Legion (Legion) and Veterans of Foreign Wars (
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