Was I supposed to forget the VA Walter Reed embarrassment of 2007?

[underpants]

Last edited Wed May 21, 2014, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)

"It's not just Walter Reed"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401394.html

Was I supposed to forget that the VA had a customer satisfaction rate of 80%+ as recently as 2013?
http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2537
In fact, Fox News included government run healthcare operations' (VA, TriCare, Medicaid, Medicare) approval numbers to inflate approval ratings for privately run healthcare ( none was above 50%) in their failing argument against ACA.



Was I supposed to forget that part of planning for a WAR is to plan for the aftermath? Even if the jokeknob in Chief at the time apparently said that he thought we could invade and occupy an entire country and there would be no casualties.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/10/21/robertson-bush-said-no-casualties-in-iraq/


Look none of this excuses the VA not getting fixed but for God's sake this is only new because of the SURGE in Vets filing claims. Wars make more Veterans.

[FSogol]

1. Are we also forgetting that the GOP House and Sentators voted against increasing Veteran's benefits?

[bigtree]

2. or this?

Senate Republicans Betray U.S. Vets By Blocking Veterans Benefits Bill http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/27/senate-republicans-betray-u-s-vets-blocking-veterans-benefits-bill.html …

Alec MacGillis ?@AlecMacGillis 3h
Just three months ago, Senate was poised to pass a big bill expanding VA funding. It was blocked by a GOP filibuster: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/27/us-usa-veterans-congress-idUSBREA1Q26O20140227 …

[underpants]

5. Also notice the lack of connection to civilians without health care dying

I get the THIS IS FOR THE TROOPS (I was once a troop myself ) but in an adult conversation about this the fact that the lack of services is the common denominator would be mentioned.

Who am I kidding, there are no adult conversations in our media.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Of course, you were supposed to forget all that. The only thing you need to remember about anything

is that "It's Obama's fault!!!!!".

[AnalystInParadise]

4. Not exclusively no.....

But I think everyone Repub and Democrat needs to take a bite of this shit sandwich. I am a veteran and I can find fault on both sides....

[underpants]

6. Agreed

Everyone dropped the ball on this.

[IronLionZion]

7. Everyone screwed up on this one

GOP of course cut funding for vets and increased the supply of wounded veterans through their wars. I'm disappointed that Dems didn't know about it and do something. Hopefully enough Dems will do something to fix it. This should be a top priority for Obama, the healthcare president.

[hootinholler]

8. I'm not totally positive, but I think Walter Reed was regular Army, not VA