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Phoenix Va Health Care In Trouble

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/index.html

When I count my blessings I count my family and friends twice.

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Looks like DOCTOR FOOT is trying to distance himself from the VA. Pretty convienent to come forward after you retire, and say ohh it was them, not me. Sounds like a whole bunch of folks need to be p

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as long as they allow the va to operate in a enviorment where they have no fear of prosecution, the corruption will continue, and actually get worse. why is it that they are exempt? If a cop turns di

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Fox News just said they have the emails mentioned in the link on this story. Pete Hegseth from Concerned Veterans of America just told Gretchen Carlson at Fox that this possibly just the tip of the

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They will find some ward clerk to blame for the whole thing. The higher ups who knew and approved of this will probably get off scot free. I believe what happens is that top management makes demands on these hospitals to keep budget down, and yet do more medical procedures. Managers and doctors at the hospital are afraid of losing their jobs so they cheat. The problem is not isolated. I think it is a systemic problem with the VA.

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I feel for these families, and I am so tired of us VETS being the First on the line to FIGHT, and the LAST on the Line to get HELP!

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as long as they allow the va to operate in a enviorment where they have no fear of prosecution, the corruption will continue, and actually get worse.

why is it that they are exempt? If a cop turns dirty, he can be prosecuted. if a judge turns dirty, they can be prosecuted/ yet a medical professional can systematically kill veterans and theres no punishment?

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They will find some ward clerk to blame for the whole thing. The higher ups who knew and approved of this will probably get off scot free. I believe what happens is that top management makes demands on these hospitals to keep budget down, and yet do more medical procedures. Managers and doctors at the hospital are afraid of losing their jobs so they cheat. The problem is not isolated. I think it is a systemic problem with the VA.

well the fact the good ole dr. FOOT knew what was going on, and even said that the heads of the hospital knew what was going on, should be plenty enough to subpeona depositions.

I will go out on a limb and bet that most of the patients on this NAZI list were elderly.

hopefully people in arizona are calling the state attorney, the congresscrittters., the veterans service orgs, the news channels, the FBI, the CIA, and make a huge deal abt this to focus attention on this horrific tragedy.

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My VA hospital got into trouble for doing too many open heart surgeries on very elderly and sick vets. They were using these sick old guys to train heart surgeons from the medical school next door. This was a few years ago before they did the stents. They would just cut these old alcoholic vets who smoked two packs a day for 50 years from their groin to their necks. I worked at the local VA hospital at the time.

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sound like a live autospy

but they dont have to wonder what killed them, because they killed him/

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