More VA Problems Exposed
May 28, 2014 Military, Obamacare
The single payer, government run health care system known as the VA is in a shambles. It has been a boondoggle since its inception but has gotten worse over the years. While Democrats will claim that the problem is the large influx of patients because of the wars they voted for, the reality is the system did not run well when we were not at war.
The problems at the VA predate Obama (and Bush though Democrats think the history of bad starts with him) and as such Obama does not shoulder the blame for the problems there. He shoulders the blame because they are still there and are worse.
Candidate Obama blasted President Bush and the VA system and President elect Obama promised to fix things. He did not fix them. In fact things are much worse now and Obama is responsible for that. He was aware of the problems (despite his claims to the contrary) and he did NOT fix them as he promised.
There is now a news story that the problems at the VA in Phoenix are much worse than originally reported. Forty veterans are reported to have died while on a secret waiting list designed to allow administrators to claim great patient wait times and collect bonuses. Veterans died while waiting for care as administrators received bonuses for the great jobs they were doing. The Phoenix VA, according to an Inspector General’s report, has as many as 1,700 veterans awaiting care but who are not on the official waiting list.
This means that they might never receive care. Additionally, their absence from the list is designed to show the VA in a favorable light.
For more on how the scheme works read this article about the VA in Texas. There are supporting documents to show the top person cancelled and manipulated appointments in order for him and other executives to receive bonuses. Fifty percent of their bonus rating is based upon patient wait times so they manipulated those times to appear as if they were in compliance. They did not care about the veterans, only their own money and careers. These folks should end up in jail.
The Texas run system even received an award despite being investigated for these criminal acts in the past. There is overwhelming evidence that the top person was involved and made the changes but the conflicts were blamed on low level employee error which was than touted as something discovered and fixed (it was not). Looks like these folks follow Obama’s example of leadership; blame others…
There is another report that involves the VA but is about police brutality and not directly related to the scheduling scandal (but part of a corrupt culture nonetheless). An elderly vet was beaten and stomped by VA cops and suffered a stroke that subsequently resulted in his death.
America, is this how we should be treating our veterans?
Ideally, veterans should receive their care in the open market (with the bill paid for by the government) and not be restricted to government run socialized medicine. But if that will not happen then the VA should hire veterans to run its facilities. Veterans who have health care experience should be hired to work in those facilities. And veterans who served as military police should be police officers in the VA. These folks know what their fellow veterans have gone through and what kind of treatment they deserve.
The government should also remove all bonuses. This scheme only encourages people to cook the books.
If I ran any VA hospital I would not accept a bonus and I would not cook the books. I would demand the highest standards of care and fire anyone who did not comply.
If the government can’t run a system that has been in place for decades and only involves a small part of the overall population why does anyone think government run health care for all is a good idea? What makes anyone think that eventually Obamacare will be any different?
Government run care will always end up like this. People become a burden to the system and are abused because of it.
Look out America; you will soon be subject to this.
Let’s pass a law that all members of Congress and the Obama regime MUST receive their health care at a VA facility with no VIP treatment whatsoever.
I bet it would get fixed then… (Big Dog salute to Marcus Luttrell)
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: bonus, Obama, scandal, single payer, socialism, VA, veterans
Hey Nevada, Thank Harry Reid
May 6, 2014 Obamacare
Harry Reid, the criminal Senator from Nevada, pushed hard for Obamacare. He was busy ensuring his labor union buddies in the casino world got their breaks and they ensured union employees went out to vote to keep ole Harry in the Senate. Obamacare is wonderful Harry tells us.
Well it looks like it will not be so wonderful for tens of thousands of people in Nevada as their premiums are set to go up between 35 and 120 percent. The younger folks will be hit hardest as their premiums rise by a huge amount in order to pay for the others getting subsidized health care. Insurance companies cannot stay in business if they do not have enough money coming in and the young, healthy crowd is the cash cow in the equation.
Local insurance brokers are reporting spikes ranging from 35 percent to 120 percent on policies that renew from July to December. The increases are especially acute among employers with workforces made up of younger, healthier men. That’s because Obamacare prohibits offering lower rates to healthier groups. It also narrows the allowed premium gap between older and younger enrollees. Las Vegas Review Journal
People will definitely have sticker shock. All the mush filled heads who voted for Barack Obama and Harry Reid will get just what they deserve. Unfortunately, so will many who opposed them and their madness.
Harry and his Democrats know that bad things will happen which is why Obama keeps delaying and changing things in Obamacare. He is trying to make sure the bad things do not happen until after the election in November. He and his minions (particularly those in vulnerable seats) are hoping that they can delay the pain until they are safely in their seats for another term (six years for Senators and two for Representatives).
Don’t be fooled people. You are going to feel the pain at some point. no matter how many times they delay the pain will eventually catch you.
Some of the expensive renewals will be mailed out prior to November so people will be hopping mad come Election Day. Look for Reid and the Democrats to do everything they can to prevent that from happening.
Please do not be gullible. If they delay the notifications until after the election the price increase will still come. It matters not when you find out, you will still get the same bad news.
Hold them accountable and vote every Democrat out of office. Send a strong message that they were wrong and that you are making them pay.
You folks who voted for them in the past and begged for government health care actually deserve to get screwed over badly but the rest of us should not be punished for your stupidity.
So let’s replace the tyrants with people who will do a better job and who will listen to the people.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: barack obama, Harry Reid, lies, nevada, obamacare, premium increase, sticker shock, vote them out
From The Frying Pan to the Fire
May 5, 2014 Obamacare
Remember Romneycare? You know, the government health care program in Massachusetts that Barack Obama said Obamacare was modeled after. Yeah, that Romneycare.
It was touted as some great accomplishment by Romney who had to defend why he opposed Obamacare when he did the same thing in MA. To his credit, the MA plan was a state initiative and other states are free to try similar approaches. The federal government overstepped its bounds by applying it to all states.
In any event, while Romney was trying to explain his health care plan and how great it was (despite its cost overruns and lack of insurance to many people) Obama was saying it was a great idea and he did nothing more than model his disaster after the disaster in Massachusetts.
Looks like Romneycare is an official failure:
Bay State officials are taking steps this week to junk central parts of their dysfunctional health insurance exchange — the model for President Barack Obama’s health care law — and merge with the federal enrollment site HealthCare.gov. Politico
So the Bay State admits that the exchange that Obama modeled Obamacare after is dysfunctional so to solve the problem MA will use the even more dysfunctional Obamacare exchanges.
While MA is technically only exchanging the exchange system (the meat and potatoes), if you will, the reality is the exchange is part of a larger and more dysfunctional problem. Massachusetts will scrap its bad exchange system for an even worse one.
Romneycare is a disaster. It costs way more than estimated, fails to cover everyone and has resulted in people not receiving health care services.
Obamacare is even worse and on a national level. The exchanges do not work, people are not covered, it costs nearly 2.5 times more than was estimated and it is not generating the enrollment from the demographic needed to support it.
Yes, the liberals in Massachusetts have decided that they should go from bad to worse and call it progress.
This is liberalism and big government in a nutshell.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
The Party of NO
May 3, 2014 Obamacare, Opinion, Political, Religion of Peace, Second Amendment, Terrorism
Democrats often call Republicans the Party of NO – because we oppose Barack Obama and the Liberals (sounds like a good name for a Death Metal Band) where they want to Give everything to their constituents. Even noted Republican RINO Chris Christy has called us the party of no, saying that’s not good enough – that we have to offer something to the voters.
I will admit, it makes us look bad. People call Barack Obama Santa Claus, but he’s not – he’s Monty Hall. All flash and bright colors and big gifts behind unknown laws – I mean curtains. The problem is that the current Republican leaders in Washington want to be Monty Hall too – be all flashy and glittery with gifts – to BRIBE their way into office – because that’s how they get good ratings and stay on TV – I mean, in Congress.
It’s DAMNED hard to beat someone who can give piles of MONEY and TREASURE to their minions.
But – unlike Christie – I believe Republicans should BE the Party of NO. After all, the Republican Party was formed to say NO to the Democrat Slaveowners. The current festering pile of Republican Party leaders want to give out shiny gifts – they have no MESSAGE, no RIGHTEOUSNESS to inspire people as to WHY they should vote for NO.
I EMBRACE NO:
NO to RAISING TAXES – WE DO NOT WORK JUST TO SUPPORT CONGRESS!!!
NO to FUNDING ISLAMOFASHISTS!
NO to FUNDING SYRIAN MUSLIMS WHO ARE EATING DEAD CHRISTIANS!!!
NO to TAKING AWAY OUR RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES BY OWNING A FIREARM!!!
NO to LIMITING FREE SPEECH!
NO to OBAMACARE!
NO to LETTING OUR VETERANS DIE!!!
NO to ABANDONING ISRAEL!!!
NO to ALLOWING IRAN TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!
NO to ALLOWING AMERICANS TO DIE IN BENGHAZI SO DEMOCRATS CAN LOOK GOOD!
NO to MOCKING THE LORD OUR G✡D BY BOOING HIM ON NATIONWIDE TV!!!
I AM A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! I AM THE PARTY OF NO!!!
Tags: conservative, party of no, Republicans
Carney: We Have No Idea But You Are Wrong
May 1, 2014 Obamacare
Imagine if you owned a grocery store and you had no way of tracking what you received and what you sold. Now imagine you claimed that 1000 cans of peas had gone out of your store yesterday and when asked how many of the cans had been paid for you said you did not know (or you said you didn’t have hard numbers).
Someone with access to some information makes the claim that only 670 of them were paid for.
What would your response be? Would you say you needed to see how those numbers were derived or would you claim they were wrong?
Keep in mind, you have no idea.
Jay Carney, the Press Clown for Barack Obama did just this when asked how many of the 8 million people the administration claims signed up for Obamacare had actually paid. When presented with numbers in a report from the House Energy Committee Carney said the Obama Regime does not know how many signed up but that the Regime disputes the numbers.
How exactly can they dispute something if they have no clue what the actual numbers are?
Carney could have said they find the report hard to believe but would need the actual information to know.
Instead he basically said we have no idea but the others are wrong.
This is what passes for intelligence in DC.
It is bad enough these clowns are cooking the books (if 8 million really did sign up how many are people who did not have insurance before Obamacare) but after forcing millions out of their health insurance and then signing them up into Obamacare they not only claim they had 8 million sign up but that, while they don’t have a clue as to how many paid, the numbers presented by others is wrong.
We won a World War in the amount of time the Regime has had to build a website that would capture all this information and it has failed miserably.
Then again, this might have been by design. If they can’t tell how many paid (or other useful data to determine success or failure) then they can claim success without having failure pointed out. If we do not know we cannot tell you.
And if you have an answer you are wrong…
Oh, and it is Bush’s fault and you’re a racist…
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: carney, failure, known unknown, lies, obamacare