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LOVE THE TERRORISTS, HATE THE VETS: Terrorists at Gitmo Treated Better Than Veterans

By Clash Daily / 23 May 2014





President Obama finally addressed the nation Wednesday about the growing scandal at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. After meeting with VA Secretary Eric Shinseki he pledged to hold folks accountable.
Thanks, Mr. President.
By now most American have heard about the VA’s infamous patient “secret wait lists” which reportedly contributed to the deaths of up to 40 veterans in the Phoenix area alone. Those patriots were American heroes who served our country proudly. Yet they were left to die waiting to see a doctor.

While the Gitmo ratio is 1.5 to 1, for America’s 9 million veterans receiving VA health care and 267,930 VA employees, the ratio is 35 to 1.

Here’s another secret the White House doesn’t want you to know about the VA. Al Qaeda detainees get better medical treatment than our veterans.
Say what?
Yes, it’s true. I know because I served as a Pentagon spokesman from 2005-2009 and visited Guantanamo Bay Naval Base over 30 times during those years.
Despite the fact that Al Qaeda terrorists carried out the Sept. 11 terror attacks, killing 3,000 people in America, the admitted co-conspirators and their roughly 150 fellow jihadists at Gitmo have approximately 100 doctors, nurses and health care personnel assigned to them.
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Friday, 23 May 2014 18:30 The VA Scandal in Brief: Yes, It's Bad

Written by Thomas R. Eddlem




The emerging cover-up of long waiting periods for care at Veterans Administration hospitals has burgeoned into national news in recent weeks, with “secret waiting lists” being exposed in half a dozen or more locations and President Obama calling for an inspector-general inquiry into the matter.

The scheme to cover up long waits at VA hospitals worked like this: The local VA administrators in numerous VA hospitals would not officially book an appointment — however direly needed — until an opening in a doctor's schedule came up, essentially keeping a waiting list to get onto the official waiting list. In other instances, the politicians in charge of the facilities would constantly cancel and reschedule appointments in order to make it appear that the overwhelming majority of appointments were made within the VA's stated goal of a 14-day window. This allowed administrators to boast they had moved toward compliance with the 14-day mandate coming out of Washington. “Yes, this is gaming the system a bit,” a supervisor's e-mail sent to Cheyenne, Wyoming, workers acknowledged. "When we exceed the 14 day measure, the front office gets very upset, which doesn't help us." The e-mail had been sent by a VA worker-turned-whistleblower to CBS News May 9.

Despite claims by administrators that waiting times were shorter under the Obama administration, actual waiting times by veterans were often months or longer. American Legion National Commander Daniel Dellinger testified May 15 before Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, “While a veteran might wait more than two weeks for most primary care appointments, specialty care appointments can take many months or even years.”

The scandal — while simmering for months or even years — made national news with an investigation into the Phoenix, Arizona hospital. But in recent weeks various news outlets have reported similar incidents in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ft. Collins, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta, Georgia. More instances of “secret waiting lists” are expected to be revealed in the coming months. The Atlanta ABC-television affiliate WSB-TV claimed “hundreds” of deaths since 2001 in an investigation.

Perhaps the biggest break in the story was an April 30 report by CNN, which noted, “The secret list was part of an elaborate scheme designed by Veterans Affairs managers in Phoenix who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources.... Internal e-mails obtained by CNN show that top management at the VA hospital in Arizona knew about the practice and even defended it.”

Drew Griffin of CNN interviewed the director of the Phoenix facility, Sharon Helman and the chief of staff, Dr. Darren Deering on May 1, and when Griffin asked Deering, "Have you found instances where veterans are on the waiting list and have died?" Deering replied, "Yes."
CNN noted that “as many as” 40 deaths are attributable to the Phoenix hospital alone and that as late as May 23 of this year, veterans are still waiting as long as 55 days for an appointment.

The day after CNN's April 30 broadcast, Phoenix VA Director Sharon Helman, Associate Director Lance Robinson, and a third person were put on administrative leave by President Obama. Dr. Robert Petzel, under secretary for health in the Department of Veterans Affairs, resigned May 16. Some have called for the firing of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki over the issue, even an increasing number of Democrats in Congress.

The care of veterans — and even active duty military personnel — has long been plagued with scandal, from a scathing 2001 General Accounting Office report on care of veterans to the 2007 Washington Post exposé on unsanitary conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Even corruption with local hospitals making fraudulent claims is nothing new. A 2010 internal VA memo published by the American Legion revealed that the deputy under secretary for health operations and management told VA employees: “It has come to my attention that in order to improve scores on assorted access measures, certain facilities have adopted use of inappropriate scheduling practices sometimes referred to as ‘gaming strategies.’”

Supporters of the current system tout polls (such as a Rand Corporation 2004 study) that demonstrate veterans have usually rated VA care higher than that given to the general public. But it should hardly be surprising that people would rate something they get for free higher than something for which they'd otherwise have to pay thousands of dollars.

President Obama has long made a cause out of health care for veterans, saying in a March 19, 2009 speech still featured on the White House website: “We also owe our veterans the care they were promised and the benefits that they have earned. We have a sacred trust with those who wear the uniform of the United States of America. It's a commitment that begins at enlistment, and it must never end. But we know that for too long, we've fallen short of meeting that commitment. Too many wounded warriors go without the care that they need. Too many veterans don't receive the support that they've earned."

Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro has noted that Obama and his supporters have often touted the VA as a model to follow in setting up ObamaCare. But if waits of months or years is the standard for health care, is it really better actual care than a private system when under ObamaCare many Americans will see their health care premiums double?

President Obama has attempted to put a good face on the scandal, claiming in a May 21 press conference, “We have made progress over the last five years. We’ve made historic investments in our veterans. We’ve boosted VA funding to record levels. And we created consistency through advanced appropriations so that veterans organizations knew their money would be there regardless of political wrangling in Washington.”
Likewise, White House Press Secretary Tim Carney noted May 21 that problems with VA care predated Obama: “I think the president made clear that the issue of problems in the VA with access to health benefits has been with us as a country for a long time and has been exacerbated by the fact that we are at the backend of a more than decade-long period of war, where we’ve seen a significant increase in our veterans — in the number of veterans and in the number of veterans who need disability benefits and health services. And that has been a challenge for the VA for a long, long time — certainly for the past decade or more. So that’s, as he said today, the President said today, that’s not a new issue.”
Clearly, veterans need to receive their contracted health care benefits. But if one can expect long waits regardless of the party in charge in Washington, is expanding VA care to encompass the entire nation really a good idea?

^{Photo of the Phoenix VA Health Care Center: AP Images}

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The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg

Ron Paul 2 hours ago

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President Obama held a press conference last week to express his outrage over reports that the Veterans Administration was routinely delaying treatment to veterans, with some veterans even dying while on alleged secret waiting lists. The president said that, "if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period." He vowed that, together with Congress, he would "make sure we're doing right by our veterans across the board."

The president is right to be upset over the mistreatment of US military veterans, especially those who return home with so many physical and mental injuries. Veterans should not be abused when they seek the treatment promised them when they enlisted. But his outrage over military abuse is selective. He ignores the most egregious abuse of the US armed forces: sending them off to fight, become maimed, and die in endless conflicts overseas that have no connection to US national security.

It is ironic that the same week the president condemned the alleged mistreatment of veterans by the VA, he announced that he was sending 80 armed troops to Chad to help look for a group of girls kidnapped by the Nigerian Islamist organization Boko Haram. Is there any mistreatment worse than sending the US military into a violent and unstable part of the world to conduct a search operation that is in no way connected to the defense of the United States?

As Judge Andrew Napolitano said last week, "Feeling sorry for somebody is not a sufficient basis for sending American men and women into harm's way."
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We are naturally upset over reports that Nigerian girls have been kidnapped by this armed Islamist organization. Unfortunately, cruel and unjust acts are committed worldwide on a regular basis. What the media is not reporting about this terrible situation, however, is that it was US interventionism itself that strengthened Boko Haram, and inadvertently may have even helped the kidnappers commit their crime.

Back in early 2012, just months after the US-led attack on Libya overthrew Gaddafi and plunged the country into chaos, the UN issued a report warning about the proliferation of weapons from that bombed out country. UN investigators found -- eight months before the attack that killed the US ambassador in Benghazi -- that, "Some of the weapons ... could be sold to terrorist groups like al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram or other criminal organizations."

The US, NATO, and the UN are guilty of creating the unrest currently engulfing much of northern Africa, as they all pushed lies to promote an attack on Libya that destabilized the region. Now the president is launching an intervention in Chad and Nigeria to solve the problems created by his own intervention in Libya. This pattern is the same in places like Ukraine, where the US-backed coup in February has led to chaos and unrest that leads to even more intervention, including NATO's saber-rattling on the Russian border. Has anyone in the Administration or Congress ever considered that interventionism itself might be the real problem?

As Americans celebrate the Memorial Day holiday, we should remember that though the VA's alleged abuse and neglect of US veterans is scandalous, the worse abuse comes from a president and a compliant Congress that send the US military to cause harm and be harmed overseas in undeclared, unnecessary, and illegal interventions. The best way to honor the US military is to honor the Constitution, and to keep in mind the wise advice of our Founding Fathers to avoid all foreign interventionism.

President Obama held a press conference last week to express his outrage over reports that the Veterans Administration was routinely delaying treatment to veterans, with some veterans even dying while on alleged secret waiting lists. The president said that, "if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period." He vowed that, together with Congress, he would "make sure we're doing right by our veterans across the board."

The president is right to be upset over the mistreatment of US military veterans, especially those who return home with so many physical and mental injuries. Veterans should not be abused when they seek the treatment promised them when they enlisted. But his outrage over military abuse is selective. He ignores the most egregious abuse of the US armed forces: sending them off to fight, become maimed, and die in endless conflicts overseas that have no connection to US national security.

It is ironic that the same week the president condemned the alleged mistreatment of veterans by the VA, he announced that he was sending 80 armed troops to Chad to help look for a group of girls kidnapped by the Nigerian Islamist organization Boko Haram. Is there any mistreatment worse than sending the US military into a violent and unstable part of the world to conduct a search operation that is in no way connected to the defense of the United States?

As Judge Andrew Napolitano said last week, "Feeling sorry for somebody is not a sufficient basis for sending American men and women into harm's way."

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Triple Amputee Veteran Brian Kolfage Blasts Obama in Powerful Memorial Day Letter: You were Raised to Hate America
Tim Brown May 26, 2014

Senior Airman and veteran Brian Kolfage, Jr. is the epitome of what a man who has taken his oath seriously is about. After becoming the most severely wounded Airman in US history, Kolfage fought back against the odds to regain his life, marry his bride and continue to be a voice among veterans against the tyranny we see taking place under the Obama administration. In a powerful Memorial Day letter, Kolfage took time to blast Obama writing, "Your disdain for America and her greatness has never been a secret. You were raised to hate the 'American Empire' and were taught that the American military is the enemy."

Here's Kolfage's letter in its entirety, via his Facebook page.

President Obama,
On this Memorial Day I can’t help but think of the many veterans who have given their lives to protect the freedoms that we all enjoy today, and quite frankly one that so many Americans take for granted. As you’re playing your 165th round of golf this weekend you can count on our warriors to protect you and to protect this great nation.

From the Civil War to the wars in the deserts of the Middle East, our brave men and women have given their lives for freedoms that can only be found in America. Generations of selfless Americans have stepped up to fight for a cause greater than themselves. Freedom is never free, and the price of our freedom has been paid with the blood of our finest Americans. Your daughters have been fortunate enough to reap the freedoms that so many have sacrificed their lives for. Without these heroes you would have never have had the opportunity to become the President of this great nation.

Sadly, the men and women who have volunteered to fight the in the most extreme conditions in the world are coming back only to find themselves engaged in a new war at home. They have now found themselves in a war with your incompetent administration, who’s scandal ridden legacy has finally hit an all-time low. I can’t help but feel the deepest disgust for the pain you and your administration have caused the families who have lost their heroes battling your war against our veterans back home. I can’t think of more shameless way to for this country to dishonor its veterans. And sadly, it’s the lack of your leadership and accountability that lead to these failures.

These men and women who bravely fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars have been forced to rely on your useless bureaucratic employees for their health care. These federal employees disrespected these men and women and the sacrifices they have made in the worst imaginable way. They ignored their pleas for help and in many cases left them to die in favor of hefty government bonuses for exceptional performance. We all know you and your regime doesn't give a damn about these heroes. Your disdain for America and her greatness has never been a secret. You were raised to hate the “American Empire” and were taught that the American military is the enemy. It was easier for you to just ignore the Veteran Affairs crisis as you crisscrossed America fundraising for your fellow Democrats.

I remember candidate Obama promising to overhaul the VA and reduce the backlog. You claimed that America’s support for its veterans is obvious by the way we treat our vets. You really nailed that one didn't you? Just like you were going to fix Detroit or fix foreign policy. Your high school like approach to solving complex issues can’t be fixed by tweeting hashtags with propaganda to people who want to kill us. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see you’re unfit to lead our nation, let alone act as our Commander In Chief. What our country needs now, more than ever is real leadership, someone who doesn't wait for a crisis, but is able to foresee an issue and deal with it before it happens. Unfortunately for America, you've been too busy campaigning and don’t have time to deal with the health care crisis of our veterans. The only thing you seem to care about is your own radical agenda, and now our vets are paying for your negligence with their lives.

As I sit here typing this out I’m dealing with my own VA nightmare which involves the Phoenix VA. I have given 3 limbs for this country, but apparently that is not enough. A “clerical error” made by a VA employee has resulted in nearly a year of abuse and mismanagement of my case. In other words, the VA is stealing over $7000 from my disability compensation that I earned when I lost 3 of my limbs for our country.

On this Memorial Day, as I battle your incompetent bureaucrats my family would like to thank you for once again failing our veterans. We can’t help but wonder about the disastrous socialized medicine program that we will surely be dealing with if ObamaCare is allowed to be fully implemented. If our incompetent VA cannot handle government healthcare for a fraction of our population, who would be foolish enough to believe a massive health care system designed to provide health care for all American’s would be any different? You can’t even find someone to build a competent website to work for your socialized medicine program when you had your name attached to it, so why would you care about our veterans when you could so easily push the blame off on someone else?

You have not only failed our veterans, you have failed America in every way imaginable. You have purposely divided us by race, political parties, and socioeconomic status in order to push a radical agenda on America that can only be passed when you have successfully divided all Americans. Your entire administration is incompetent and you have set America on a path for certain failure.

So, on this Memorial Day, as we honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, I’d like to thank you, our Commander In Chief for not even caring enough to provide us with quality health care.
Brian Kolfage, Sra, USAF Ret.

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SCREWED: Coulter, ‘We’re All Going to Be Getting the Same Health Care the Vets Are Getting’

By Clash Daily / 28 May 2014

Conservative writer Ann Coulter joined Sean Hannity to discuss ObamaCare as well as the Veterans’ Affairs scandal.
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60 Dead Veterans left to rot in LA County Morgue for 18 months while Obama Gets Photo Op in Afghanistan - Freedom Outpost







60 Dead Veterans left to rot in LA County Morgue for 18 months while Obama Gets Photo Op in Afghanistan

Richard Anthony 1 hour ago

Nothing our president does comes as a surprise anymore, but when he uses our troops, still stationed in Afghanistan, for nothing more than a photo-op to deflect from his abysmal neglect of veterans here at home, it's beyond shameful! I wonder, did he really think that we'd swallow that little bit of theater? Does he really think the American people are that stupid? Answer - Well of course he does!

There is more shocking news regarding the VA scandal coming out every single day now. But boy, howdy....didn't he look great putting that wreath on the tomb of the Unknowns on Memorial Day? If I was one of those "low information voters," I would almost swear that he really does care about our nation's finest. Thank God I'm not that stupid! For the president to tell America he knew nothing about the problems within the VA is also insulting.

More disturbing news has surfaced about the neglect by the VA. This time it comes from Los Angeles County, where the dead bodies of at least 60 veterans have been left in the LA county morgue for almost a year and a half without being processed and given a burial with honors that they deserve.

This past Thursday, the LA County Coroner's Office was asked 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.

The law states veterans are supposed to receive a proper burial.

The Veterans Administration says they were never notified the bodies were processed and ready to be buried. The LA County Morgue and the Veteran's Administration were blaming each other for the mistake. I would have given almost anything to have listened to that conversation.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId= 10197783

The Obama administration's neglect of my fellow veterans is beyond insulting. But what the heck folks, what's one more scandal to these people? How many more times will our president act "outraged" and promise to get to the bottom of things and not do a darn thing? The White House and the DOJ have done everything they can to impede any investigations ranging from Operation Fast And Furious up to and including this latest scandal involving the Veterans Administration.
I'll tell you what I'm grateful for; I thank God that I have a family that cares about me. I'm also grateful that my wife and I have already paid for our cemetery plot. I shudder to think what would happen to my remains if I didn't have a family, or if I had to depend on the VA to provide me with a timely burial. Would my body be left to rot in a county morgue like those men?

If this story doesn't make you mad as hell, then nothing will.

I wonder, what those dead veterans in the L.A. county morgue would say to our president if they could speak?

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A friendly message from
the Department of Veterans Affairs
Fifty three years too late...





Let's see...

The military started testing radiation on soldiers and sailors in 1946.

In 1996 they announced a program to help them. My arithmetic has that at fifty-three (53) years later.

Thirty year olds who were exposed would be 83 by then. Twenty year olds, 73.

"Exposure to radiation might cause health problems."

Did it really take them 53 years to figure that out and offer these men help?


Do you think waiting weeks for
medical care is an outrage?

Here's a group of soldiers
who had to wait 53 YEARS
because the injuries they
were exposed to were
"classified."

Video:

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Military Members Died Defending Our Rights, Will You Allow Their Sacrifice To Be Mocked

Posted by Joe Wurzelbacher on May 29, 2014

I wrote my “open letter” on the eve of Memorial day – a day we honor the fallen heroes that defend and protect our rights.

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These men and women that served and paid the ultimate price for our way of life were someone’s dad, mom, brother, sister, or daughter. They made that sacrifice, which guarantees our freedoms because they believe in America. So I’m asking the question:

Why are the lives of these brave Americans less important than the victims of Elliot Rodger?

Because if the solution to this horrific incident is surrendering to the devious schemes of oppression; it nullifies the sacrifice of all Veterans. To infringe on our rights to bear arms would make a mockery of our fallen heroes who died defending our way of life.

Left-leaning politicians and their lapdogs in the mainstream media want to use this “crisis” to further chip away our rights. They want to use these deaths to gain more power and more control. They only care about the victims so long as they serve a purpose:

The killings are useful, the grieving an opportunity, the survivors are props in a staged circus of phony outrage, but with real people now damaged by the very policies the Marxists hope to arrange more of.

Don’t believe me? Look how the country has taken care of our veterans:

The horror story is right in front of our faces. This President swore five years ago to do something about it and billions of dollars later, all we have to show are dead Veterans in Arizona and no one accountable.

Because once these heroes return from the battlefield, they are no longer useful to the left. They’re thrown aside and ignored in a VA bureaucracy which should have been an obvious warning to all against the horrors of socialized medicine.

Even when 90-year-old men in wheelchairs wish to visit the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C. – a monument they built by trudging across Europe in their bare feet to kill Nazis, cramming into submarines in the South Pacific to hold off the invading Japanese, and staring down Rommel’s tanks in Africa – they’re confronted with steel barricades, compliments of the Administration.

Back to guns:


-Whistles don’t protect women from rape – a Glock does!

-When armed men come into your house to steal, a baseball bat doesn’t cut it. Unless you have an automatic-baseball bat. I want one of those – email me.

-When a nut-job decides to go on a killing spree and the cops are 5 to 15 minutes away, you are screwed unless you are carrying a Colt.

-And – this is the most important one:

Guns are mostly for hunting down politicians who would actively seek to take your freedoms and liberty away from you. Google “Hitler, Mao, Kim

Jung Il, Castro, Stalin” just for starters.

As far as me being nice, cordial, respectful – don’t hurt people’s feelings… bla bla? We tried that and look where it got us?

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Obama Knew About VA Problems, But Did Nothing to Fix Them

Posted By Frank Camp on May 31, 2014



“Liars need to have good memories.” – Algernon Sidney

Remember back when George W. Bush was president, and the liberal press dissected everything he said? When they weren’t acting outrageously, they were actually doing what a press is supposed to do; they were keeping politicians (Republican ones, at least) on their toes.

If all else fails, a free press is supposed to keep watch on politicians. The free press is essentially a fourth branch of government, designed to check the power of the other three branches. The only way a government as large as ours can be controlled is if the people know what’s going on. The only way the people can know what’s going on is if the press digs it up. Unfortunately, because the press is comprised of liberals, the Obama administration has gotten away with things that would have taken down a Republican president long ago.

The latest in an ever increasing list of Obama scandals has come, and will likely go without any real accountability on the part of the president. A couple meaningless resignations have occurred, and Obama has expressed fake outrage. That’s usually the way these things play out, and disappear. However, I’d like to point out something Obama said in one of his recent speeches regarding the VA:

“This predates my presidency. When I was in the Senate, I was on the Veterans Affairs Committee. I heard first-hand veterans who were not getting the kinds of services and benefits that they had earned.”

Hang on. Obama just admitted to having knowledge about the corruption, and bureaucratic problems of the VA while he was a Senator. If he knew about these problems prior to his presidency, why did he do absolutely nothing to solve them when he was elected? It’s been six years since Obama’s historic election victory in 2008, and only now is he acknowledging the problems at the VA. It took the press to spur him into action.

Imagine if former president Bush had said something like that. He would have been crucified, and rightly so. Knowing about a systemic problem, and ignoring it isn’t really a presidential thing to do. But it seems like that’s just par for the course for Obama. Let’s just add this to the list: Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS, NSA, VA.

There’s no way to defeat a president whose accomplices control the output of information to the masses. The only thing we can do is persist, and put forward candidates who are fearlessly conservative. Because all we have been doing at this point is presenting “nice” candidates, who wilt at the prospect of a fight. If we give the Democrats a fight, the media has to pay attention. The more the media pays attention, the more they will be forced to hold everyone equally accountable. Exposure often forces the truth to come to light.

If we continue being weak, the Democrats will continue to commit crimes, and the media will continue to look the other way.

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Dr. Ben Carson: Too Many Layers of Bureaucracy in VA System









by Fox News Insider // May 31 2014 // 5:07pm

As seen on Fox and Friends Weekend


Dr. Ben Carson was on “Fox and Friends” this weekend to discuss alternatives to the VA health care system and ObamaCare.


“I have managed to talk to a lot of people in the military,” he said. “They tell me that the level of enthusiasm has decreased dramatically. That’s dangerous for us because the military should be enthusiastic about their jobs, and we have a real obligation to make sure that they understand how much we appreciate them.”
Carson said there are too many layers of bureaucracy between the veterans and the people who want to help them, rendering it inefficient. He said that’s also why he’s worried about ObamaCare.

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VA Hospital Hides Jesus Behind Curtain

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“If we can just start working together and forget about this my way or the highway stuff, we can take care of all of our citizens in a way that puts the health care in their hands, brings the whole medical system into the free market economy, which will control pricing and will control efficiency,” he said.
Of ObamaCare, he said, “I’m not sure it’s fixable. I’m in the camp of replacement,” citing a shift of power from the people to the government.
Carson said Americans must be knowledgeable and remember that we, the people, are “the pinnacle of power.”

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House VA Committee Chair: Obama 'Does Not Understand the Gravity of the Situation'


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