Vietnam Vet Finally Gets VA Doctor’s Appointment Two Years After His Death

[Mr. Mensch]

In this apparently particularly egregious case, Massachusetts resident Doug Chase was diagnosed with the brain tumor in 2011. Suzanne Chase, his widow, told Boston’s WBZ (http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/iteam-acton-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-2-years-after-he-died/) that in 2012 they attempted to transfer Doug’s medical care to a local Veterans Affairs hospital in Bedford, Mass., because the trip to Boston where he apparently was receiving treatment was becoming too difficult for her husband.
The Chase family never got an answer from the VA, and Doug sadly passed away in August 2012.
A few weeks ago, i.e., two years later, the VA sent Doug Chase a letter indicating that he was approved for an appointment with a VA physician.
Suzanne admitted she was in complete disbelief upon receiving the VA correspondence dated June 12, 2014. “It was 22 months too late; I kind of felt like I was in the twilight zone when I opened this letter and read it.”

http://www.inquisitr.com/1329214/vietnam-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-two-years-after-his-death/

That's government efficiency for you. Wait long enough and the problem solves itself.

[Libhater]

In this apparently particularly egregious case, Massachusetts resident Doug Chase was diagnosed with the brain tumor in 2011. Suzanne Chase, his widow, told Boston’s WBZ (http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/iteam-acton-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-2-years-after-he-died/) that in 2012 they attempted to transfer Doug’s medical care to a local Veterans Affairs hospital in Bedford, Mass., because the trip to Boston where he apparently was receiving treatment was becoming too difficult for her husband.
The Chase family never got an answer from the VA, and Doug sadly passed away in August 2012.
A few weeks ago, i.e., two years later, the VA sent Doug Chase a letter indicating that he was approved for an appointment with a VA physician.
Suzanne admitted she was in complete disbelief upon receiving the VA correspondence dated June 12, 2014. “It was 22 months too late; I kind of felt like I was in the twilight zone when I opened this letter and read it.”

http://www.inquisitr.com/1329214/vietnam-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-two-years-after-his-death/

That's government efficiency for you. Wait long enough and the problem solves itself.


Yeah, it was from that very same VA hospital in Bedford, Ma that I had started my long journey toward receiving benefits for my Post Traumatic Stress condition. There was one time when it took the fine folks at the VA three years to grant me my service connection recognition at the 100% rating.

I was an in patient at the West Haven, Ct, VA hospital for four months going through their rigorous PTSD program. Out of the previous eight 4-month PTSD programs no fewer than 7 combat veteran patients and or outpatients' either committed suicide or died as a result of a drug overdose. Our lead psychiatrist was being held responsible for the death of one such veteran for not prescribing the right psychotropic drug or the right dosage of said drug.

[Libhater]

In this apparently particularly egregious case, Massachusetts resident Doug Chase was diagnosed with the brain tumor in 2011. Suzanne Chase, his widow, told Boston’s WBZ (http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/iteam-acton-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-2-years-after-he-died/) that in 2012 they attempted to transfer Doug’s medical care to a local Veterans Affairs hospital in Bedford, Mass., because the trip to Boston where he apparently was receiving treatment was becoming too difficult for her husband.
The Chase family never got an answer from the VA, and Doug sadly passed away in August 2012.
A few weeks ago, i.e., two years later, the VA sent Doug Chase a letter indicating that he was approved for an appointment with a VA physician.
Suzanne admitted she was in complete disbelief upon receiving the VA correspondence dated June 12, 2014. “It was 22 months too late; I kind of felt like I was in the twilight zone when I opened this letter and read it.”

http://www.inquisitr.com/1329214/vietnam-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-two-years-after-his-death/

That's government efficiency for you. Wait long enough and the problem solves itself.

[Mainecoons]

Government health care at work.

But, hey, those well paid "civil servants" got their bonuses on those dead bodies.

Scum.

[exotix]

Obamas' Fault.

[Libhater]

Obamas' Fault.

Yup it is as he promised to clean up the VA backlogs at the beginning of his administration in 2009. What's this I see, another broken promise.

[exotix]

Yup it is as he promised to clean up the VA backlogs at the beginning of his administration in 2009. What's this I see, another broken promise.
Correct .... *Yes we can and change we could believe in*

[nic34]

In VA Scandal, Accountability for All -- Including Congress

While Congress eagerly prepares its latest political stunt -- a resolution to oust Gen. Eric Shinseki as Veterans Affairs Secretary -- individual members might consider their own responsibility for the scandalous inadequacy of veterans' health care. Unlike most of them, especially on the Republican side, Shinseki opposed the incompetent war plans of the George W. Bush administration that left so many American service men and women grievously wounded. And unlike most of them, especially on the Republican side, Shinseki has done much to reduce the backlog of veterans seeking care, despite the congressional failure to provide sufficient funding
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A substantial portion of the estimated $ 3 trillion price of that war is represented by the cost of decent care for veterans. But even as the war raged on, the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress repeatedly refused to appropriate sufficient funding for veterans' health care. This financial stinginess toward vets was consistent with Bush's refusal to take any steps to pay for his expensive war (and decision to protect his skewed tax cuts instead).

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who chairs the Veterans' Affairs Committee, noted that the costs of the expansion bill could be covered by savings from the end of troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. But with cruel irony, according to the Washington Post, "Republicans indicated that they prefer to dedicate the savings (of redeployment) toward deficit reduction" rather than improved services.

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What those who have served should get is the kind of care that has made the VA among the most successful health systems in the world (for those who can access its services). Instead they will get political swaggering, as members of Congress seek to score points against Obama by attacking Shinseki, and dogmatic opportunism, as right-wing ideologues insist the VA is just another big-government program to cut or even abolish. The Republicans who are susceptible to such proposals should be very careful, lest they arouse the anger of the normally conservative American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose leaders react with anger and outrage to the idea of privatization.

Joe Conason - May 24, 2014

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/05/24/in_va_scandal_accountability_for_all_--_including_congress_122738.html#ixzz36LIlZoBu

[exotix]

Republican Strategy: Obstruct, Blame Democrats For Obstruction’s Damagehttp://ourfuture.org/20140529/republican-strategy-obstruct-blame-democrats-for-obstructions-damage


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk5ZJ6uVO9Y#t=81