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    Sarah Palin: VA Scandal is the Future of Obamacare… Vote Democrats Out

    Sarah Palin: VA Scandal is the Future of Obamacare… Vote Democrats Out

    Just about anyone with a drop of common sense knows that Obamacare is a huge disaster and a threat to the freedom Americans still enjoy, albeit in a much more limited capacity than in previous generations.
    With the revelation of the VA scandal, the latest in a long line of cover ups involving the Obama administration, the nightmare that is Obamacare has taken an even more sinister turn, alarming conservatives and inspiring former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to revive talk of death panels.
    This latest scandal indicates that Obama’s Veteran’s Administration put 40 military vets on a secret waiting list to receive needed medical treatment, leading to their deaths.
    Palin connected the secret VA waiting lists to rationed health care, stating that what’s happening with veterans is the future of all citizens on Obamacare.
    The former Alaskan governor had warned the American people about rationed health care and death panels back in 2009, but was dismissed by the media. Palin took to Facebook to once again voice concerns on the issue.
    Via Breitbart:
    “Friends, that’s rationed care. That’s the VA today. That’s what’s got to change,” she wroteWednesday on Facebook. “That’s why Congress has got to change because until we elect leaders who’ll buck the march to socialized medicine known as Obamacare, America’s health care system will go the way of the VA.”
    Palin [has] previously warned about the perils of socialized medicine and Obamacare before the law was enacted.
    “Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost,” Palin wrote in 2009 while predicting “death panels.” “And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.”
    Politifact deemed Palin’s remarks to be its “Lie of the year,” and Palin was mocked years before liberals like Howard Dean, Paul Krugman, and some of President Barack Obama’s former advisers – like Steven Rattner – finally conceded she was right.
    The fiery spokeswoman for conservatism also warned that liberals would eventually use the failures of Obamacare to push for a single-payer health care system.
    “What happens next is the Left will subtly suggest moving America toward a single-payer system, which was their intention all along. Watch for this gradual, but driving, descent into statism,” Palin warned. “So, are you still relying on Obamacare to help and not hurt you? On the Democrats’ watch, health care in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats proves Reagan’s adage that government is not the solution; government is the problem.”
    Sarah Palin is dead on with her analysis and prediction. The VA scandal has blown the doors wide open on the secret intentions the Obama administration has for the rest of America through their push toward socialized medicine. It’s given the nation a glimpse at what rationed health care looks like, and it’s disturbing.
    Americans need to start paying attention to the direction Democrats are taking our country in, and begin electing candidates who stand on principle that will continue to fight Obamacare tooth-and-nail. Liberals have proven that when they are pushed hard enough, they will back down, so now is the time to stand boldly against Obama’s progressive agenda and preserve our health care system.
    Please share this article on Facebook and Twitter if you agree with Sarah Palin that Americans need to stand and fight against Obamacare.

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    Fox News

    Veteran and Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth said the VA system is a preview of ObamaCare – "less choice, higher costs, more bureaucracy, more paperwork, and likely delays and rationing."
    What do you think?



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    The VA scandal and socialized medicine



    By: Ben Domenech
    5/28/2014 09:48 AM

    This article originally appeared on heartland.org.
    The continued scandal of the Veterans Health Administration provides a good example of the downside of government-run medicine. But when it comes to comparisons to Obamacare, Avik Roy illustrates why the VA is much worse:

    The most important thing to understand about the Veterans Health Administration is that it truly is socialized medicine. We often throw the term “socialized medicine” around to describe any government health care program, but the distinction is really important to understand. Socialized medicine, properly understood, is a system in which the state owns and controls everything. The government owns the hospitals; it employs the physicians; it pays for the health insurance and the health care. That, in a nutshell, is the VA. It’s also, for the most part, the system in place under the British National Health Service.
    Single-payer health care, on the other hand, is only partly socialized. In a single-payer system, the government is the sole insurer, but hospitals can be widely privately owned and operated, and doctors can work for private hospitals or for themselves. Medicare and Medicaid, at the outset, were designed as single payer programs.
    Subsidized private health care is the next step downward, in terms of government intervention. In countries like Switzerland, for example, there are no government insurers or “public options.” Instead, the Swiss government offers premium support subsidies for low-income individuals to shop for private insurance. Under this model, the government often regulates the types of insurance products that are eligible for subsidies.
    Why do these distinctions matter? Because they have a huge impact on the quality of health care. The Swiss system isn’t perfect, but it is renowned for its high patient satisfaction, low wait times, and access to the latest technology. Medicaid, on the other hand, provides poor-quality coverage, and many doctors refuse to accept it. Medicare is better off on this metric, but it’s heading down the same path. On the other hand, while private hospital care in the U.S. is wildly expensive, no one disputes that its quality is generally good, and in many instances world-class.
    Obamacare expands coverage in two ways: first, by creating Swiss-style exchanges where people can buy subsidized, regulated private insurance plans; and second, by expanding Medicaid. For all of the exchanges’ flaws–especially their high premiums–the quality of coverage they will offer is decent, and we should expect that uninsured people will do reasonably well on them, so long as they can afford the premiums. Medicaid is a different story; the literature shows that Medicaid does not improve health outcomes relative to being uninsured.
    But the VA is an altogether different beast. The VA is not merely single-payer health care; its vast network of hospitals is also government-financed and government-operated. And that is why the VA is the worst health-care system in America.
    The reality of the current VA scandal is that it represents the government failing at one of the few things it’s actually supposed to do – provide for the care for those who defended the country. The scandal has already moved into the territory of a political hot potato, where controversies over figures and wait times turn into a sea of numbers that ignores the human cost borne by this mismanaged program. The real question now is whether the scandals will lead to a sustained push to privatize the VA’s health offerings entirely. Such a proposal, which was recently endorsed by House Speaker John Boehner, would go even further than steps endorsed by the likes of Sen. John McCain, who has called for allowing veterans to seek care outside the system.
    A number of bills on this front could advance in the coming weeks in Congress. For the sake of future veterans, let’s hope the reforms chosen are ones that engage in broad reform of the system as opposed to mere tweaking at the edges. As long as the bureaucracy of the VA is maintained as-is, it will be more about serving the priorities of bureaucrats than the patients it ought to put first.


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    Waiting Lists Just The Beginning: Texas VA Hospital A ‘Crime Syndicate,’ California Vet Allegedly Beat To Death By VA Cops

    May 29, 2014 by Sam Rolley

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    As a preliminary independent review by the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general confirmed Wednesday that veterans seeking care at the VA facility in Phoenix faced delays averaging 115 days, veterans’ care facilities all over the Nation are becoming the subject of damning scrutiny. The spotlight is revealing increasingly disturbing abuses.
    Acting Inspector General Richard J. Griffin said that the VA report confirms not only that there was a problem at the Phoenix facility, but that inappropriate scheduling practices are indeed “systemic throughout VHA [Veterans Health Administration].”
    In Phoenix, VA officials had claimed that official data showed veterans waited an average of only 24 days for care. But the IG report discovered that left out of the official data were at least 1,700 veterans who had been placed on wait lists not included in the VA’s official reporting.
    “Most importantly, these veterans were and continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost in Phoenix HCS’s convoluted scheduling process,” the report said. “As a result, these veterans may never obtain a requested or required clinical appointment.
    “A direct consequence of not appropriately placing veterans on EWLs [Electronic Wait Lists] is that the Phoenix HCS leadership significantly understated the time new patients waited for their primary care appointment in their FY 2013 performance appraisal accomplishments, which is one of the factors considered for awards and salary increases,” the report continued.
    The initial report stopped short of confirming whether veterans died as a result of being placed on the wait list, noting that the investigation is ongoing.
    The inspector general report also said that further review was needed to get to the bottom of a recent flood of complaints about mismanagement, corruption and outright incompetence throughout the Veterans Health system.
    “Lastly, while conducting our work at the Phoenix HCS our on-site OIG staff and OIG Hotline received numerous allegations daily of mismanagement, inappropriate hiring decisions, sexual harassment, and bullying behavior by mid- and senior-level managers at this facility,” the report said. “We are assessing the validity of these complaints and if true, the impact to the facility’s senior leadership’s ability to make effective improvements to patients’ access to care.”
    A report published by The Daily Beast this week underscores the possibility of widespread wrongdoing by Veterans Affairs employees throughout the Nation. Internal memos and emails from the Texas VA obtained by the outlet, along with firsthand information from an unnamed whistleblower, illustrate how the VA has devolved into a “crime syndicate.”
    “For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” the whistleblower, aTexas VA employee, told The Daily Beast. “People up on top are suddenly afraid they may actually be prosecuted and they’re pressuring the little guys down below to cover it all up.”
    “I see it in the executives’ eyes,” the whistleblower continued. “They are worried.”
    The Daily Beast report reveals rampant scheduling fraud, incentives for VA doctors to cut patient care and a cover-up similar to what happened in Phoenix.
    Meanwhile, a California widow named Norma Montano filed a Federal lawsuit on Friday alleging that the Loma Linda VA Police Department killed her husband when he grew tired of waiting for treatment on May 25, 2011.
    According to the lawsuit, Jonathan Montano became irritated after waiting more than four hours for a dialysis appointment and decided to leave the Loma Linda VA facility and seek treatment at a facility in Long Beach. Montano’s family said that he did not want to allow the hospital to remove a shunt placed in his arm for the treatment; but VA officials insisted that it be done because, they said, it would be too dangerous to travel with it in place.
    The hospital called in VA Police to deal with Montano, claiming that he had become belligerent as he insisted that he be allowed to leave the facility with the shunt in place. The veteran’s widow alleges that the officers subsequently threw Montano to the floor, beating him and damaging his carotid artery, causing a stroke. Two and a half weeks after the incident, Montano was dead.
    The hospital initially told Mrs. Montano, who was not present when the incident occurred, that her husband suffered the stroke in a fall.
    “Later on, one of the nurses at the VA Hospital in Loma Linda took Norma Montano aside, and told her that her husband didn’t fall, but was slammed to the ground by the VA Police, that Norma Montano was being lied to, and that it wasn’t right what the VA Police did to Jonathan Montano,” the suit alleges.
    In December 2013, the VA reviewed the incident and declared that there was “no evidence of negligence or wrongful act or omission by VA employees that resulted in injury to, or the death of, the veteran patient in June 2011. Although a terrible and unfortunate incident occurred, VA personnel acted and responded appropriately.”

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