Which then often leads, in turn, to suicide.
It just goes to give us yet another sneak preview of what the single-payer heatlhcare system towards which Barack Obama has us hurtling at breakneck speed will truly be like:
Award-winning journalist and New York Times’ best-selling author James O’Keefe released a troubling and powerful new video today showing various VA employees, contractors and volunteers discussing the pill-pushing culture of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the adverse affects it is having on our nation’s veterans. Dr. Maureen McCarthy, the Deputy Chief of Patient Services for the entire VA, was caught on hidden camera telling a Project Veritas investigative journalist that: “It’s people that have drug problems, some of which are caused by us and our prescribing.” In discussing the various cocktails of drugs given out by the VA, McCarthy stated: “That combination in particular is like candy for some people. It’s like they want it, they want it, they want it.”
Sadly, on average, twenty-two U.S. veterans take their own lives each day. The VA appears to be a bit too eager to simply write prescription after prescription and move on to the next patient, rather than actually getting to the root of the problem many soldiers with P.T.S.D. face. Georgeann Davis, a senior VA volunteer based in Buffalo, New York, told a Project Veritas investigative journalist that: “In my opinion, they are creating drug addicts.”
Well, that's not entirely precise. What they're doing is using drugs to make veteran patients go away because they have no market competition compelling them to provide vets the best possible care, and the result is that the veteran patients are becoming drug addicts, and sometimes eventually hanging themselves or ODing or whatever. The VA simply doesn't give a rat's ass one way or the other, or that, unlike Bowe Berghdahl, these men and women did serve with honor and distinction, didn't ask to suffer painful, sometimes catastrophic injuries, but were willing to risk it in order to serve their country and spare We, The People the possibility of incurring the same or worse.
Those with firsthand experience with the VA system can speak to this topic better than I can. But it's clear even to us laity that the VA itself is unreformable and needs to be privatized if vets are to receive the same level of care and service that they rendered to us.
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