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originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: Tardacus
Pills....a vet is prescribed the highest limit and given half the dose, this leaves heaps to sell on the lucrative black market. As long as the prescription issues ,matches the stock during an audit the cash rolls in.
The VA has a lot of good legitimate hospitals. Their budget is not big enough to hire extra good doctors though, the government seems to want to transfer the money to regular doctors and does not flinch at the extra costs occurring with their doing so.
originally posted by: desert
a reply to: rickymouse
The VA has a lot of good legitimate hospitals. Their budget is not big enough to hire extra good doctors though, the government seems to want to transfer the money to regular doctors and does not flinch at the extra costs occurring with their doing so.
The corrupt Puerto Rican employees had to go, but that does not mean that the VA program must go. My late fil had excellent VA care, and both he and my mil were grateful for the VA help and care they received.
I was so sorry to read about your relatives but was not surprised by the story. Unlike private doctors, the VA has regulations about their doctors accepting gifts, etc from pharmaceutical reps, and also how drugs etc promoted by pharma reps are placed into the VA system. The VA also negotiates drug prices, helping get costs down.
The current power in govt wants to privatize the VA, so what your relatives went through in the private sector would become common place with vets. The "Concerned Veterans for America" who gets in the news bashing the VA is really a Koch funded group to promote privatization. It's not some grassroots organization. Its intent has nothing to do with providing better care to veterans but to, as you excellently put it, "transfer the money to regular doctors and does not flinch at the extra costs occurring with their doing so".
Keep Americans drugged and coming back for more, regardless of ill effects.
originally posted by: everyone
This is great news, really good to see this.
You have to wonder why this is not being paraded around in the media. Although i bet that if CNN would would even pay attention to this (which they really dont want to) that all they would be doing is say " See Trump is now firing Puerto Rican's, HE IS RACIST". While if all of the MSM would instead pay attention to these things in a honest way and bring this sort of information to the public (drones) masses they would actually be helping the matter a lot and gaining widespread support and initiative to clean these sort of things up.
It really is time for the MSM to stop trying to sabotage everything and stop being part of the problem and go forward instead.
That being said i see a total lack of trump critics here. They also rather see this thread disappear a.s.a.p AKA also part of the problem.
originally posted by: Krakatoa
originally posted by: everyone
This is great news, really good to see this.
You have to wonder why this is not being paraded around in the media. Although i bet that if CNN would would even pay attention to this (which they really dont want to) that all they would be doing is say " See Trump is now firing Puerto Rican's, HE IS RACIST". While if all of the MSM would instead pay attention to these things in a honest way and bring this sort of information to the public (drones) masses they would actually be helping the matter a lot and gaining widespread support and initiative to clean these sort of things up.
It really is time for the MSM to stop trying to sabotage everything and stop being part of the problem and go forward instead.
That being said i see a total lack of trump critics here. They also rather see this thread disappear a.s.a.p AKA also part of the problem.
There's no wondering needed for that question. It is well known that if a story does not meet the criteria of the Democratic Party, it is not really news worthy. Even if true, and easily researched and proven. No, they run with wild speculation and hard to prove items as long as it trashes their opposition.
Freedom of the press....right.