Anyone
who thinks government-run healthcare is a good
thing, that it's just what we need,
should take a very
close look at the scandal rocking the Veteran's Administration right
now, as well as other socialized medicine programs around the world.
Believe it or not, liberals, those of us who speak out against
government-run healthcare have
our reasons.
Just
today, the Inspector General's report
on the VA scandal was released, which confirmed that veterans were
made to wait ridiculously
long times for appointments at the Phoenix VA hospital for an average
of 115 days.
The “official” VA data, by the way, showed that those vets
waited an average of just twenty-four
days.
I don't know how you look at it, but my non-Common Core math says
115 days is over four
times
more
than 24 days. Some veterans waited for an appointment as long as 155
days!!!
The IG's report also said that the problems are “systemic”
throughout the entirety of the VA.
The
veterans of the United States military have been treated abysmally.
The men and women who have written a blank
check
to the nation they love should be the first
to receive healthcare: Before welfare recipients, before government
bureaucrats, before anyone in either house of Congress, before anyone
in the White House or the Supreme Court. I cannot
emphasize that enough. Yet, as the IG report states, at the Phoenix
VA alone
there are as many as 1700
veterans in danger of being lost to the system due to not being on
the Electronic Waiting List, or EWL, as well as up to 1400 veterans
who are
on the EWL but not yet received an appointment for their primary care
physician.
Our
veterans have left parts of themselves all over this planet. My own
grandfather lost a leg fighting Nazi Germany. My father left a part
of his soul in Vietnam fighting the spread of communism, not to
mention the health issues he's had from being exposed to Agent
Orange. Veterans having to wait for the care they were promised
is disgraceful and reprehensible in the extreme. And for veterans to
be basically denied care, most likely because the “official” EWL
is the standard for VA worker's bonuses, it's unconscionable.
I
understand that the problems at the VA didn't start
with this administration, but King DingleBarry made multiple
campaign promises to fix
the issue during the 2008
campaign.
He didn't “find out through media reports” as they've recently
claimed, yet the majority of the mainstream media remains silent on
this aspect of the story. It's true that the VA's budget has been
essentially doubled over the last few years, but the VA also rolls
over any unused funds from one year to the next. Approximately $450
million was rolled over from last year to this. Why
was this money not
used to get the waiting vets the healthcare they needed and deserved?
This
scandal is stunning in its depth and breadth. The VA system is
socialized medicine, and the problems inherent in the VA system will
be multiplied, and amplified, across this country once Obamacare is
fully and completely implemented. All one needs to do is look at
nations with government-run
healthcare to see that.
We're
heading down a path
that has already been trod upon, and right now, our veterans are
paying a price they should never had been made to pay, and soon, we
will all
be paying that price. ~ Hunter
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