Why hasnt Obama come out and made public comments on the VA scandal?

Uncle Ben said:
Everything the U.S. Government touches gets fucked up witness Obamacare.

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You mean the replica of the private market health insurance scheme Romney implemented in Massachusetts?
Americans seem happy with it despite the rhetoric and hysteria. Get used to it. It's the new status quo.
By the time a Republican hits the White House again it will be so popular they won't touch it.
 
Jimdamick said:
1st of all, the VA shit has been going on at least since Viet Nam. Actually since we fought in any war, but the beginning of the present SNAFU started 20 year ago in the Gulf wars, which again were started by a Republican, also named Bush. Secondly, Obama is again blamed by the GOP, for a situation they fucking created. Lastly, who did you have to blow to get a card the 2nd day after a injury. I want that doctor.
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Boooosh!!!
 
Jimdamick said:
Too many Republicans in the House for him to accomplish anything. Every appointee that he has ever made has had to jump thru hoops to get by those lame , fucking hillbilly redstate assholes in the Congress.
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Not true at all. He has illegally appointed several. You seem to not be paying attention to reality.
 
kelly4 said:
Hell, if there was ZERO chance of going to war, I probably would have signed up. Good thing I didn't or I might have went to the gulf in '91.

Fuck, with ZERO chance of going to war, millions more might have signed up. Good thing I'm smarter than the average bear.
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I haven't heard of any bears signing up, so how are you smarter?
 
NLXSK1 said:
Has he not found time between golf and basketball games???

Are more script writers begin brought in to try to figure out how he can talk his way out of this given his remarks in the 2008 election??

Is he simply more interested in fund raising than addressing any of the problems in America?? Including the ones he is creating??

I was looking around the new site and the legal sections are gone from the bottom of the page. I guess it is not as important anymore since so many states are going legal. Anyway, I hurt my back on Monday and I was legal on Tuesday. It really hasnt sunk in yet. I cant go to a dispensary without a card but there are care givers that can provide for me right now and some deliver.

I'm legal ;]
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I was hearing something about endemic drug dealing across the entire services network.
And it goes way back and there is payola involved, maybe to the Mob.
 
abandonconflict said:
So leave them at the mercy of private companies which operate for profit?

That would not get rid of the backlog of claims. It would still require a cut in gov't red tape to approve claims and if left in the hands of private corporations what you would end up with is every single compensation claim being handled in a way that maximizes profit without regard to the status of the veteran. Besides, the claims are not solely for healthcare but for the monthly stipend. You can't privatize that.
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Public organization are rife with corruption as well. Fire or Frying Pan? Both are monkey infested. Where is that Gom Jabbar, when we need it?
 
Holy macaroni, that's the ticket...blame Boooouush!
How long has Obama been in office?

Has he exerted any administrative effort whatsoever to fix these pre- existing problems?
He knew things were bad back in 2008 and before.
What has he done to correct these atrocious problems?
Zero, zip, nada...
Now thing are worse...so blame Boooush!!!
What a farce and unmitigated disaster this administration is rapidly becoming.


WASHINGTON — It’s one of those promises the president would probably like to forget.

In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly seems even worse.

WND has discovered that during his transition into the White House in 2008-09, President Obama proposed in his “Obama-Biden” plan to “make the VA a leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care possible.”

However, instead of fixing the VA, the administration has had to defend its role in the death of veterans by neglect.

Meanwhile, WND is reporting that eight years earlier, in a failed run for Congress, Obama unveiled a sweeping health-care plan that modeled aspects of the Veterans Administration’s medical system.

The VA problems became a national sensation April 14 when CNN reported that at least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix VA, many of whom were placed on a secret waiting list.

The discovery of the Obama-Biden VA plan fits a pattern that has come to light this week in which Obama repeatedly warned, or was warned, of serious problems at the VA but apparently did little in response.

In the document labeled the Obama-Biden Plan from the Office of the President Elect, Obama makes a series of promises to veterans, including:

  • Fix the Benefits Bureaucracy: Hire additional claims workers, and improve training and accountability so that VA benefit decisions are rated fairly and consistently. Transform the paper benefit claims process to an electronic one to reduce errors and improve timeliness.
  • Strengthen VA Care: Make the VA a leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care possible. Improve care for polytrauma vision impairment, prosthetics, spinal cord injury, aging, and women’s health.
  • Fully Fund VA Medical Care: Fully fund the VA so it has all the resources it needs to serve the veterans who need it, when they need it. Establish a world-class VA Planning Division to avoid future budget shortfalls.
The Obama-Biden plan seems to have fallen so far short of its promise to “Fix the Benefits Bureaucracy” that the VA itself has admitted 23 vets have died waiting for care, and investigations of possible death-by-neglect have spread to 26 VA facilities around the country.

As WND has reported, Obama was warned about severe problems at the VA repeatedly over the years, even before he became president.

  • WND discovered that Obama was briefed on problems at the VA as far back as 2005, when he was a senator and a member of the Veterans Affairs committee.
  • In a 2007 speech, Sen. Obama said, “Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America’s commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.”
  • The Washington Times reported Monday that the Obama administration received notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care.
  • VA officials reportedly warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the wait times the facilities were reporting were not trustworthy.
  • More recently, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., wrote a letter to Obama on May 21, 2013, that warned: “an alarming pattern of serious and significant patient care issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) across the country … (including) failures, deceptions, and lack of accountability permeating VA’s healthcare system … I believe your direct involvement and leadership is required.”
  • And, WND reported last week that Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., reminded VA Secretary Eric Shinseki that Congress had been informed two years ago that gaming the system at the VA was so widespread, employees would look to get around regulations as soon as the rules were implemented.
Democrats have been quick to say the problems were caused by an increase in veterans in the system due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the solution is to increase spending on the VA.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said, “If the VA does not have enough doctors to see these patients, then these problems are a result of a lack of funding.”

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” NBC News chief Pentagon reporter Jim Miklaszewski claimed, “You have a VA that is overwhelmed and under-resourced,” adding, “There’s just not enough money right now in the federal government to fix it.”

However, John Merline at Investor’s Business Daily crunched the numbers and found that just wasn’t true.

On the contrary, he found the VA’s budget has been exploding, even as the number of veterans steadily declines.

VA spending nearly tripled from 2000 to 2013, while the population of veterans declined by 4.3 million.

Even more telling, wounded warriors coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan are not increasing treatment costs.

Those vets are actually far cheaper to treat than aging vets.


http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-2008-va-will-become-a-leader-of-health-care-reform/
 
oh, cool.

a copy and paste from the same right wing publication that has accused obama of murdering his gay lover.

thanks, waffle.
 
Wavels said:
Denial is most becoming...It must be all made up...ignore and carry on...hahaha
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http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/obamas-gay-pot-dealer-killed-over-flatulence/

WND
OBAMA'S 'GAY' POT DEALER KILLED FOR FLATULENCE?
High-school pal beaten to death with hammer by homosexual lover





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WND
OBAMA'S 'GAY' POT DEALER KILLED FOR FLATULENCE?
High-school pal beaten to death with hammer by homosexual lover[/QUOTE]

Deflect much???
Wow,
Are you seriously attempting to assert that Obama NEVER promised to fix the woefully dysfunctional VA back in 2007 and 2008??

Best of luck perpetuating this fantasy!

This is just too funny.
 
Wavels said:
WND
OBAMA'S 'GAY' POT DEALER KILLED FOR FLATULENCE?
High-school pal beaten to death with hammer by homosexual lover
Deflect much???
Wow,
Are you seriously attempting to assert that Obama NEVER promised to fix the woefully dysfunctional VA back in 2007 and 2008??

Best of luck perpetuating this fantasy!

This is just too funny.
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let's see what other awesomeness your source has ran with:

WND EXCLUSIVE
CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BECOME PRESIDENT
Chicago homosexual community shocked he could keep it secret

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/claim-obama-hid-gay-life-to-become-president/#cUtLmpQPtytvrmUC.99
 
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