Throwing the BS Flag: Congress Woman Corrine Brown "Not one VA complaint, I can tell you we’re doing fine”

By Elizabeth Nelson

Ok, for starters, anything this woman says is grounds to be filtered through a lie detector.  This is the woman that has cherry-picked her district, by way of ethnicity, in order to insure that she maintains the thrown.  This woman, who's our female version of Obama, wouldn't know the truth if she was locked up with it in the closet.  

Now, if what she said were true and there were truly "not one complaint," why is she pissed at Governor Scott for his independent investigation into the Gainesville VA and why do they keep sending his investigators away, forcing him to sue them if they don't stop stonewalling him, if they have nothing to hide and "we're doing fine?"

As the VA fiasco continues to grab headlines, a Florida congresswoman wants to put the nation at ease about any potential problems in the Sunshine State.

“I did my reconnaissance in Florida, and I can tell you we’re doing fine,”  U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Democrat, said during a U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday night in the U.S. Capitol.

Brown said she spoke with various VA groups and did not encounter “one single complaint.”

Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced plans to file a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki for blocking the state’s ability to inspect VA health facilities.

As Watchdog.org previously reported, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration inspectors have been blocked from performing on-site reviews at six VA medical centers in the state. AHCA inspectors were turned away from a Gainesville VA last week upon the “discovery  of a secret waiting list.”

An independent report from the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general’s office, released Wednesday, verifies allegations of improper scheduling procedures and hidden treatment delays in Phoenix that may have led to the deaths of 40 veterans.

“Under this president, and when we had a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, we got the largest increase in the VA budget in the history of the United States,” said Brown.

According to VA inspector general Richard J. Griffin, funding did not play a role in the Phoenix Health Care System’s “secret” waiting lists — with delays for treatment lasting up to 115 days — but rather “multiple types of scheduling practices that are not in compliance with VHA policy.”

Did you notice, "funding did not play a role," that's important because Obama kept saying he "his solution to the problem was that he threw a lot money at this" and expected it to be resolved.  This, coming from a man that has never worked a job a day in his life.

It's like throwing money at your wife, telling her to go shopping, buy a new pair of shoes and expecting her to "feel loved" and that will make every problem in your marriage suddenly disappear, because you threw money at her. That's liberal logic. "No work necessary. Money solves problems, someone else's money solves the ills of the world."

Typical Liberal Answer to All Problems Real or Supposed. Throw More money at it

By Rob Janicki

Self proclaimed socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT), like every liberal, when faced with a problem, announced that additional funding was needed in the face of the VA scandal.  Sanders indicated that more doctors were needed in the VA system and that is what contributed to the horrendous secret backlog waiting list of veterans seeking medical services from the VA.  Had Sanders considered the secret waiting list was created to promote substantial salary bonuses for VA management?  That's the way the early investigation results are pointing.

Here's Sanders putting the cart before the horse or the solution to the VA scandal before the scandal is clearly understood and what all the ramifications are, both legal and functional for a health care providing organization.

 Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said that theVeterans Affairs controversy proved VA hospitals didn't have enough doctors and staff to meet the medical needs of military members.

“What is very clear to everybody right now is that in many parts of the country, the VA simply did not have the doctors and the staff to make sure the veterans got timely care," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation." “But we need to make sure that that never happens again.”

This may sound good, but it does nothing to address the immediate problem with VA medical services.  Expect to see studies of VA medical services provided by VA doctors compared to private medical providers.  One egregious example has come to light regarding VA cardiologists.

It's reported that the average VA cardiologist sees two heart patients per day compared to the private sector where a cardiologist sees eight heart patients per day.  This fact should be a "red flag" to anyone trying to understand the rising costs associated with the VA and the secret backlog of veterans seeking health services.

The point to be made is that VA medical service providers are not being utilized in an efficient and effective manner.  Maintaining two separate health care delivery systems is fundamentally duplicative and inefficient from an organizational standpoint across the full spectrum of health care services provided by the VA.

Rather than spending more money on VA doctors, who often make more money than do comparable doctors in the private sector, perhaps Congress can consider out sourcing more medical services for veterans to the private sector with a voucher system.  The VA could then concentrate on maintaining and expanding specialized long term services unique to veterans, at a series of regional locations.  This would allow the VA to concentrate their resources for the most expensive and ongoing health care services that might be exorbitantly expensive in the private sector. 

Pelosi Debates Defining The VA Scandal As A Scandal

By Kim D.

Nancy looks a little tired these days. It must take so much energy to keep coming up with ways to deflect and alter the reality of the horrors that have come to fruition under the Obama administration. Now she's debating whether we should be calling the "scandalous" VA Hospital situation a "scandal."  Hmmmm, let's see. The VA Hospital kept secret waiting lists so employees could cash in with big bonuses (check). Most veterans have to wait on average 115 days to initially see a doctor at the VA (check). Nancy, Americans are on to you . . . if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck . . . it's a SCANDAL!

More on the VA Scandal. 28 Dead Veterans' Bodies Left in L.A. County Morgue Unburied for a Year.

By Rob Janicki

This is not a pleasant topic to report, but it is, or seems to be, part of the current VA debacle we are seeing around the county.

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The bodies of 28 veterans at the L.A. County Morgue were finally moved Friday for burial to the Riverside National Cemetery.

CBS2/KCAL9 pressed the L.A. County Coroner’s Office Thursday to find out why the bodies had not yet received a proper burial after a source indicated there may have been as many as 60 veterans at the morgue for the past year and a half.The morgue says the bodies were unclaimed and they don’t know how long the veterans were there. 

This doesn't say much for the L.A. County Morgue administration and it may give the VA a bit of cover.  So, to be fair, the following should be noted.

The Veterans Administration says they were never notified the bodies were processed and ready to be buried. 

Somehow, someway, this situation was mishandled on multiple levels, which makes it all the more egregious, since there was no redundancy to following up the disposition of the deceased veterans at each and every level of contact with a governmental agency.

Read more here.