26 VA Facilities Now Under Investigation

[GrassrootsConservative]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/obama-aide-tasked-va-review-coming-phoenix-23796727

More accomplishments of government healthcare. Veterans are the guinea pigs, we the people will be next.

[Peter1469]

No scandal here. Move along.

It is a foreshadowing of a single payer system in the US. For many reasons, a US single payer system would look more like the British system than the Canadian system.

[Professor Peabody]

No scandal here. Move along.

It is a foreshadowing of a single payer system in the US. For many reasons, a US single payer system would look more like the British system than the Canadian system.

England's system of Universal Health Care is particularly bad. I've always recommended that folks that live there invest some money in life insurance4 policies for every member of the family.

University professor, 37, dies from lung cancer after string of doctors dismissed symptoms as 'anxiety and depression' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2290128/University-professor-37-dies-lung-cancer-doctors-dismissed-symptoms-anxiety-depression.html)

[darroll]

Is this a sneak peek into what will happen to Obama Care?

[Professor Peabody]

Is this a sneak peek into what will happen to Obama Care?

I think Obama Care was designed to fail anyway. The Democrats have been spoiling for Government run health care since I can remember and I'm 56. When the Government moves in, waste, fraud, corruption and abuse moves in with it.

[Libhater]

Just another reminder to the idiots out there that nothing the government does works and in the long run only
hurts Americans with their lives and with the depletion of their monies.

[Beevee]

England's system of Universal Health Care is particularly bad. I've always recommended that folks that live there invest some money in life insurance4 policies for every member of the family.

University professor, 37, dies from lung cancer after string of doctors dismissed symptoms as 'anxiety and depression' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2290128/University-professor-37-dies-lung-cancer-doctors-dismissed-symptoms-anxiety-depression.html)

I'm sure that every Brit here is taking on your recommendation with baited breath.

[Beevee]

England's system of Universal Health Care is particularly bad. I've always recommended that folks that live there invest some money in life insurance4 policies for every member of the family.

University professor, 37, dies from lung cancer after string of doctors dismissed symptoms as 'anxiety and depression' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2290128/University-professor-37-dies-lung-cancer-doctors-dismissed-symptoms-anxiety-depression.html)

Luckily for Brits, the suicide rate for doctors shooting themselves is quite low.

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/05/physician-suicide-etiquette-doctor-dies-suddenly.html

Anyone can find a story to justify a ludicrous remark.

[Mainecoons]

I'm sure that every Brit here is taking on your recommendation with baited breath.

That's "bated" breath, as in "abated."

I'd be willing to bet you'd never subject yourself to the U.K. National "Health" scheme. It works about as good as the VA. All of our British friends have private health insurance and avoid it like the plague. Come to think of it, I know an American who got sick, went to one of their hospitals and ended up with something quite resembling the plague.

[GrassrootsConservative]

That's "bated" breath, as in "abated."

I'd be willing to bet you'd never subject yourself to the U.K. National "Health" scheme. It works about as good as the VA. All of our British friends have private health insurance and avoid it like the plague. Come to think of it, I know an American who got sick, went to one of their hospitals and ended up with something quite resembling the plague.

I assumed he meant their breath smells like "baiting," which is true, Brits have horrible oral hygiene.

[Don]

If you compare hours worked you will see that the price of things like T.V's, washers and dryers have dramatically fallen from 1960 to the present. We work about one fourth as many hours now for these items now than we did then. Healthcare now requires us to work about 4 times more hours than we did in 1960. Much of the healthcare increase can be directly attributable to federal government involvement in healthcare starting with medicare and medicaid in 1965.

[Professor Peabody]

I'm sure that every Brit here is taking on your recommendation with baited breath.

Beevee, you've seen this before.

Dementia victims 'have twice the risk of dying in hospital while a third are not properly diagnosed by staff' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291903/Dementia-victims-twice-risk-dying-hospital-properly-diagnosed-staff.html)

University professor, 37, dies from lung cancer after string of doctors dismissed symptoms as 'anxiety and depression' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2290128/University-professor-37-dies-lung-cancer-doctors-dismissed-symptoms-anxiety-depression.html)

Premature twins died after being given 10 times too much morphine, nursing tribunal hears (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291635/Premature-twins-died-given-10-times-morphine-nursing-tribunal-hears.html)

Failings in NHS cost 30,000 lives every year (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3705625.ece)

Inspections highlight 'barbaric' home care failings (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9866111/Inspections-highlight-barbaric-home-care-failings.html)

NHS watchdog to tackle malnutrition in hospitals (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/03/nhs-watchdog-malnutrition-hospitals)

Elderly warned of growing isolation as face-to-face care cut (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9868594/Elderly-warned-of-growing-isolation-as-face-to-face-care-cut.html)

Family of RAF's finest who shot V1 rockets out the sky forced to sell medals to pay for care home (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9894728/Family-of-RAFs-finest-who-shot-V1-rockets-out-the-sky-forced-to-sell-medals-to-pay-for-care-home.html)

Closing the Independent Living Fund shows how low the government will go (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/closing-independent-living-fund-disabled-care)

Elderly patients diagnosed with 'acopia' - a disease that does not exist (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9906903/Elderly-patients-diagnosed-with-acopia-a-disease-that-does-not-exist.html)

Mid-Staffs scandal: Sir David Nicholson could face corporate manslaughter and misconduct charges (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9913790/Mid-Staffs-scandal-Sir-David-Nicholson-could-face-corporate-manslaughter-and-misconduct-charges.html)

Growing fears of Bolton hospital death rate 'cover up' (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/put-patients-first/9913889/Growing-fears-of-Bolton-hospital-death-rate-cover-up.html)

Patients 'are still in danger from nurses who can't speak English' say MPs, as they call for urgent action (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2288802/Patients-danger-nurses-speak-English-say-MPs-watchdog-calls-urgent-action.html)

Older diabetics are suffering 'needless' amputations and blindness because they get the worst care (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2288583/Older-diabetics-suffering-needless-amputations-blindness-worst-care.html)

Pensioner placed on Liverpool Care Pathway WITHOUT family's permission dies after spending eight days without food or water (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289033/Pensioner-placed-Liverpool-Care-Pathway-WITHOUT-familys-permission-dies-spending-days-food-water.html)

‘Basic errors in care cause kidney deaths’ (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3712812.ece)

Choosing a GP means gambling with your life – this must stop (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/put-patients-first/9915750/Choosing-a-GP-means-gambling-with-your-life-this-must-stop.html<br />)

Seventeen NHS hospitals have dangerously low numbers of nurses (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/9797839/Seventeen-NHS-hospitals-have-dangerously-low-numbers-of-nurses.html<br />)

Hospital patients won’t complain for fear of retribution (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3715044.ece)

New avoidable-deaths scandal to put more pressure on NHS chief (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3716023.ece)

Nurse linked to the death of premature twins killed by '10 times too much morphine' is allowed to keep working (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2294117/Nurse-linked-death-premature-twins-killed-huge-dose-morphine-allowed-working.html)

NHS neglect: elderly patients ‘denied help with food’ (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3716852.ece)

Hip fracture patients suffering 'indefensible postcode lottery' (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9938484/Hip-fracture-patients-suffering-indefensible-postcode-lottery.html)

Snap inspections expose scandal of 'institutionalised abuse' in care homes and hospitals (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9938660/Snap-inspections-expose-scandal-of-institutionalised-abuse-in-care-homes-and-hospitals.html)

Children's lives are being put at risk by a 'chronic shortage' of hospital doctors on weekends and evenings (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2307535/Childrens-lives-risk-chronic-shortage-hospital-doctors-weekends.html)

Hospital that left patients lying in soiled sheets and shivering with cold is given a stark warning to improve by health watchdog (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2340169/Hospital-left-patients-lying-soiled-sheets-shivering-cold-given-stark-warning-improve-health-watchdog.html)

Mother-of-three dies of meningitis just five days after being admitted to hospital with EARACHE (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2343112/Mother-dies-meningitis-just-days-admitted-hospital-EARACHE.html)

A&E patients being forced to wait in ambulances for up to eight hours because of lack of beds (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352121/A-E-patients-forced-wait-ambulances-hours-lack-beds.html)

An unprecedented crisis is approaching, say the health service’s most senior figures (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/special-report-this-cant-go-on--nhs-chiefs-urge-new-debate-on-health-service-reforms-8701302.html)

Number of patients being tied up and locked in rooms by care staff DOUBLES as MPs issue warning about hospital abuse (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2398292/Number-patients-tied-locked-rooms-care-staff-DOUBLES-MPs-issue-warning-hospital-abuse.html)

Thousands dying of thirst on NHS: Watchdog forced to issue guidelines on giving patients water (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2403501/Thousands-dying-thirst-NHS-Watchdog-forced-issue-guidelines-giving-patients-water.html)

Woman who was sterilised is horrified to discover metal surgical clip had travelled from her groin to her CHEST (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2402678/Woman-sterilised-horrified-discover-metal-surgical-clip-travelled-groin-CHEST.html)

'My daughter was sent home from A&E to die of croup': Grieving mother to sue hospital after one-year-old's death (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2402739/My-daughter-sent-home-A-E-die-croup-Grieving-mother-sues-hospital.html)

The little girl who could have been saved from meningitis - by jab NHS refuses to fund (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2401390/Eleanor-Coneybeare-saved-meningitis--jab-NHS-refuses-fund.html)

Concerns over nursery worker who raped child 'were not investigated' (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/27/ofsted-council-rape-toddler-nursery)

GPs predict longer waiting times - survey (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23724215)

NHS waiting lists are longest in five years (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10246145/NHS-waiting-lists-are-longest-in-five-years.html)

Pensioner died in agony after developing a horrific bedsore in hospital which left her spine exposed (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2426993/Pensioner-died-agony-developing-horrific-bedsore-hospital-left-spine-exposed.html)

Grandmother, 55, died from cervical cancer after her GP dismissed her symptoms as the MENOPAUSE (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2423611/Grandmother-55-died-cervical-cancer-GP-dismissed-symptoms-MENOPAUSE.html)

Children left disabled by meningitis after GPs failed to diagnose them are paid £28m in compensation (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2424488/Children-left-disabled-meningitis-GPs-failed-diagnose-paid-28m-compensation.html)

Girl, two, 'died after doctors failed to talk to each other about MRI scan that showed she had water on the brain' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449523/Alice-Mason-died-doctors-failed-discuss-MRI-scan.html)

Surge in elderly abuse and neglect claims (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/10356294/Surge-in-elderly-abuse-and-neglect-claims.html)

'I would worry if my family was taken to hospital at weekends': NHS boss admits he is concerned about staffing levels (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2468613/NHS-boss-Keith-Willett-admits-concerned-staffing-levels-A-E.html)

How GPs are paid £50 bonus to put elderly on 'death lists' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2468112/Revealed-How-GPs-paid-50-bonus-elderly-death-lists.html)

Christian missionary, 49, died of heart failure and brain damage after waiting more than an HOUR for ambulance to arrive (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2464711/Christian-missionary-died-waiting-HOUR-ambulance.html)

'You condemned my sweetheart to death' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507559/Husband-says-Colchester-Hospital-condemned-sweetheart-death.html)

Doctors, nurses and managers to face five years in jail if they neglect patients (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/16/doctors-face-jail-if-patients-mistreated)

Dehydration and malnutrition led to 2,162 deaths in care since 2003 (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/02/dehydration-malnutrition-care-homes-hospitals)

Jeremy Hunt says 32 hospitals are under investigation over links to claims of sexual abuse by presenter (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/29/hospitals-investigated-jimmy-savile-allegations)

Colchester hospital faces criminal investigation over waiting list figures (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/26/colchester-general-hospital-criminal-investigation)

Brain haemorrhage patients face unnecessary delays, study finds (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/22/brain-haemorrhage-patients-unnecessary-delays-study)

Four hospitals understaffed, says NHS watchdog (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/21/nhs-cqc-understaffing-four-hospitals)

Royal College of Nursing claims that as many as one in six nursing posts at some NHS hospitals are lying vacant (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/12/nursing-cuts-putting-nhs-patients-at-risk)

Thousands of seriously ill NHS patients reportedly denied drugs (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/thousands-of-seriously-ill-nhs-patients-reportedly-denied-drugs-9075875.html)

‘Postcode lottery’ denies patients access to treatment despite obesity crisis, surgeons warn (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/postcode-lottery-denies-patients-access-to-treatment-despite-obesity-crisis-surgeons-warn-9040119.html)

Midwives and patients warn of ‘devastating’ staff shortages (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/midwives-and-patients-warn-of-devastating-staff-shortages-9037908.html)

'He loved the NHS, but it let him down': Councillor, 78, died after waiting 15 months for triple bypass and a new heart valve (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2570356/He-loved-NHS-let-Councillor-78-died-waiting-15-months-triple-bypass-new-heart-valve.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2570356/He-loved-NHS-let-Councillor-78-died-waiting-15-months-triple-bypass-new-heart-valve.html)

'Our son died because he dropped off the appointments list': Parent's heartbreak after crucial scan for boy, 3, was missed (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2569220/Our-son-died-dropped-appointments-list-Parents-heartbreak-crucial-scan-boy-3-missed.html)

Scandal-hit Mid-Staffs NHS Trust to be broken up after hundreds died as a result of appalling care (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568351/Scandal-hit-Mid-Staffs-NHS-Trust-broken-hundreds-died-result-appalling-care.html)

The hospital blunders that allowed a new mother to die (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10670037/The-hospital-blunders-that-allowed-a-new-mother-to-die.html)

Heart failure cases do not get specialist care, doctors warn (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/09/heart-failure-cases-dont-get-specialist-care)

Man mistakenly given vasectomy instead of minor procedure (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/06/man-vasectomy-instead-of-minor-procedure-hospital)

Transplant patient wins payout over kidney from donor with cancer (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/04/transplant-patient-payout-kidney-donor-cancer)

Essex care home worker arrested on suspicion of assaulting elderly resident (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/03/essex-care-home-worker-arrested-assault-panorama)

'Young people DO get bowel cancer, so why is it so hard to get a diagnosis?' One new mother's terrifying story of being fobbed off with post-natal depression - and how it nearly killed her (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2623510/Young-people-DO-bowel-cancer-hard-diagnosis-One-new-mothers-terrifying-story-fobbed-post-natal-depression-nearly-killed-her.html)

Victory for widow awarded £50,000 in damages after GP misdiagnosed her husband's deadly bowel cancer as PILES (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2623271/Widow-sued-GP-1-25-million-misdiagnosed-husbands-deadly-cancer-PILES-wins-case-high-court.html)

That's only a partial list from LATE 2012, 2013 .

[momsapplepie]

All ignored by Obama when he was informed when he took office that there were problems with the VA. Guess there were no glamour shots involved......

[Professor Peabody]

All ignored by Obama when he was informed when he took office that there were problems with the VA. Guess there were no glamour shots involved......

MAP, that's the screwed up Universal Health Care System in England at this time. Just like the one Democrats want for us when Obama Care fails.

[momsapplepie]

Yeah, been reading up on aborted babies used as furnace fuel, and elderly being denied food and starved to death.

[1751_Texan]

All VA Hospitals and Clinics should be investigated and always be investigated. The VA has not and never recieved an "All Clear".

VA health care has had a long history of inadequate care. I don't remember a anyone claiming VA care was good... let alone exemplary.

[Mainecoons]

This is really ironic and serves to illustrate the mentally ill level of delusion suffered by liberals:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/liberals-touted-veterans-affairs-hospitals-as-evidence-government-run-health-care-works/article/2548775


New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has penned several valentines to the Veterans Health Administration over the years. In a2006 column (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=F20717FC3A5B0C748EDDA80894DE4044 82), Krugman argued that the system was, “one of the best-kept secrets in the American policy debate.”


He explained, “pundits and policy makers don't talk about the veterans' system because they can't handle the cognitive dissonance. ... For the lesson of the V.H.A.'s success story -- that a government agency can deliver better care at lower cost than the private sector -- runs completely counter to the pro-privatization, anti-government conventional wisdom that dominates today's Washington.”
In 2011, Krugman wrote a column blasting (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/opinion/krugman-vouchers-for-veterans-and-other-bad-ideas.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1400691639-IDHkeOg8gpg0NI03IkwnJw) Mitt Romney after the Republican presidential candidate called for partially privatizing the system. “What Mr. Romney and everyone else should know is that the V.H.A. is a huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health reform,” he wrote.
The lessons, he said, were that the incentives created by its integrated care model led to less waste and better quality care. “(Y)es, this is ‘socialized medicine,’” Krugman wrote, noting that some private enterprises also took a similar approach. “But it works — and suggests what it will take to solve the troubles of U.S. health care more broadly.”
In a 2007 article for the American Prospect, Ezra Klein also praised (http://prospect.org/article/health-nations) the system's outcomes. “What makes this such an explosive story is that the VHA is a truly socialized medical system,” Klein wrote. “The unquestioned leader in American health care is a government agency that employs 198,000 federal workers from five different unions, and nonetheless maintains short wait times and high consumer satisfaction.”
Both authors cited Phillip Longman, who wrote an influential book on the Left titled Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours (http://www.amazon.com/Best-Care-Anywhere-Health-Better/dp/0977825302/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400787635&sr=1-3&keywords=best+care+anywhere). Longman, in a 2005 article (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0501.longman.html) for the Washington Monthly that led to the book, wrote, “It turns out that precisely because the VHA is a big, government-run system that has nearly a lifetime relationship with its patients, it has incentives for investing in quality and keeping its patients well--incentives that are lacking in for-profit medicine.”

[Beevee]

That's "bated" breath, as in "abated."

I'd be willing to bet you'd never subject yourself to the U.K. National "Health" scheme. It works about as good as the VA. All of our British friends have private health insurance and avoid it like the plague. Come to think of it, I know an American who got sick, went to one of their hospitals and ended up with something quite resembling the plague.

1.) Oh my God! How did I exist for the first 62 years of my life? And without insurance too.

2.) It seems British doctors did something right then.