Liberals have always accused conservatives of hypocrisy, supporting Veterans Administration medical, while rejecting government controlled healthcare for the average folk. I always responded with, "VA quality is not that great, however, thanks to it being controlled by government."
Now, with the latest scandals with the VA. . .
Well, let's just say that the VA is so bad that according to J.D. Gordon of Fox News, the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have it better:
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.
But I think we need to look deeper. We must ask why. Why is it so bad, and when did the culture get so bad that this kind of stuff is happening? Why is it that in the last few years everything has deteriorated so bad?
Could it be the culture of failure being created by a failed presidency, and the failure of liberalism? Could it be that culture has been so poisoned by liberalism that it can't even accomplish the basics?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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