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Delaying medical care to veterans and manipulating records to hide those delays is "systemic throughout" the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, the VA's Office of Inspector General said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
"Our reviews at a growing number of VA medical facilities have thus far provided insight into the current extent of these inappropriate scheduling issues throughout the VA health care system and have confirmed that inappropriate scheduling practices" are widespread, the report said.
Investigators with the Inspector General's Office also said their probe into charges of delays in health care at a VA hospital in Phoenix shows that the care of patients was compromised.
The probe found that 1,700 veterans who are patients at the Phoenix hospital are not on any official list awaiting appointments, even though they need to see doctors. Some 1,138 veterans in Phoenix had been waiting longer than six months just to get an appointment to see their primary doctors, investigators found.
The Inspector General appeared to draw a direct link between delays in health care and the bonuses of about $9,000 and salary increases that hospital officials receive as a result of their performance appraisal.
Did anyone see Montel Williams go off on obama? He looked ready to explode.
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it's terrible this could happen. So when did they first discover what the va has been doing to the troops?
Not a surprise to anyone who isn't a partisan hack.
Delaying medical care to veterans and manipulating records to hide those delays is "systemic throughout" the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, the VA's Office of Inspector General said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
"Our reviews at a growing number of VA medical facilities have thus far provided insight into the current extent of these inappropriate scheduling issues throughout the VA health care system and have confirmed that inappropriate scheduling practices" are widespread, the report said.
Investigators with the Inspector General's Office also said their probe into charges of delays in health care at a VA hospital in Phoenix shows that the care of patients was compromised.
The probe found that 1,700 veterans who are patients at the Phoenix hospital are not on any official list awaiting appointments, even though they need to see doctors. Some 1,138 veterans in Phoenix had been waiting longer than six months just to get an appointment to see their primary doctors, investigators found.
I like this one.
The Inspector General appeared to draw a direct link between delays in health care and the bonuses of about $9,000 and salary increases that hospital officials receive as a result of their performance appraisal.
VA investigators: Delayed care is everywhere
Wait times are shorter at the VA than they are at private medical facilities.
Did anyone see Montel Williams go off on obama? He looked ready to explode.
Wait times are shorter at the VA than they are at private medical facilities.
Any suggestions for solutions from the peanut gallery other than political posturing and calling for heads?
Systemic and endemic. A sick and foul perversion.
Similar to the K-12 fuckopolis.
Can someone remind me again why government run healthcare in the future (i.e. single payer) is going to be so great when the government run healthcare we have right now sucks?
Did anyone see Montel Williams go off on obama? He looked ready to explode.
