Reporter Explains ‘Complete Dysfunctionality’ Of Veterans Affairs Disability Backlog

[pacmanx1]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/31/reporter-explains-complete-dysfunctionality-of-veterans-affairs-disability-backlog/

During an appearance on MSNBC, Aaron Glantz of the Center for Investigative Reporting explained why the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was failing to process so many disability benefits claims.

“The central problem facing the VA is that they’re not able to deal with this flood of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans coming home at the same time that a lot of Vietnam veterans are finally being allowed to claim illnesses caused by Agent Orange,” he said. “This is a paperwork problem. You know, they have so much paperwork that they just simply can’t put it through.”

Glantz reported earlier this month that the number of veterans waiting more than a year for their benefits increased more than 2,000 percent from 2009 to 2012. There are currently about 900,000 veterans waiting to receive their benefits.

[broncovet]

In that light, the psychiatrist listened to the woman blame her hubby for all the marriage troubles..her alcoholism, her drug abuse, her infedility, her obesity, etc. . The Psych remarked, "Why did you not bring him in here so I can fix him?"

[71M10]

To add a bit to Justrluk's comment. The key problem in this current paper system is that the people at the RO do not have time to properly read and evaluate the evidence in a claim's file they skim through it(a product of quotas). No one is going to convince me that ther current doctors working in the C&P service actually read the SMR and Cfile in detail. OCR and alogrithms would allow only a few key people to adjust the programs, and if thier intentions were not honorable, create an automated claim denial machine. With even less accountability than is in the system now!

I do agree if properly implemented and designed, digitized files and some text analysis could be a powerfull tool. My fear is it would be misused.

As for implementation, EBenefits implementation (lack of consitancy/use/update) by individual RO's portends a spectacular failure of this new system.

Best regards,

[Chuck75]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/31/reporter-explains-complete-dysfunctionality-of-veterans-affairs-disability-backlog/

During an appearance on MSNBC, Aaron Glantz of the Center for Investigative Reporting explained why the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was failing to process so many disability benefits claims.

“The central problem facing the VA is that they’re not able to deal with this flood of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans coming home at the same time that a lot of Vietnam veterans are finally being allowed to claim illnesses caused by Agent Orange,” he said. “This is a paperwork problem. You know, they have so much paperwork that they just simply can’t put it through.”

Glantz reported earlier this month that the number of veterans waiting more than a year for their benefits increased more than 2,000 percent from 2009 to 2012. There are currently about 900,000 veterans waiting to receive their benefits.

[tanker2]

thanks for the article Pete

[john999]

I like the way the reporter gets in a final dig at Vietnam vets. RVN vets are to blame for climate change, death of polar bears, and problems with N. Korea. There are less than a million of us left to cause so much trouble.

[autumn]

To add a bit to Justrluk's comment. The key problem in this current paper system is that the people at the RO do not have time to properly read and evaluate the evidence in a claim's file they skim through it(a product of quotas). No one is going to convince me that ther current doctors working in the C&P service actually read the SMR and Cfile in detail. OCR and alogrithms would allow only a few key people to adjust the programs, and if thier intentions were not honorable, create an automated claim denial machine. With even less accountability than is in the system now!

I do agree if properly implemented and designed, digitized files and some text analysis could be a powerfull tool. My fear is it would be misused.

As for implementation, EBenefits implementation (lack of consitancy/use/update) by individual RO's portends a spectacular failure of this new system.

Best regards,

can't convince me either. considering what doctor's wrote after C&P's they couldn't have read the records presented or did and failed to write the evidence. some C&P's didn't have my c-file. and they all played the game of mental gymnastics. guess they have too, but, that sh!t gets so old!

i second, "My fear is it would be misued".