How Obama Supports the Troops – Leaked Documents: 238,000 Veterans Died Waiting for Health Care

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Maybe we should be asking what is the difference between the murdering Planned Parenthood and our dear leader. And again that would be nothing. Neither care for life.

Recent leaked documents indicate that nearly one-third of veterans who were backlogged by the Obama Department of Veteran Affairs died while waiting for treatment.

A leaked document shows nearly one-third of the 847,000 veterans in the Department of Veteran Affairs' backlog died while waiting for treatment, amounting to more than 238,000 patients, according to documents obtained by the Huffington Post.

The VA maintains that the number is so large because it has no mechanism to purge the list of dead applicants, and that some of the veterans may have died years ago. VA spokeswoman Walinda West told the Huffington Post that some people on the list may never have completed an application, or could be using other insurance.

She said 81 percent of the veterans who come to the VA "have either Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare or some other private insurance," West said. "Consequently, some in pending stays may have to use other options instead of completing their eligibility application."

Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA's Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta, disputes the VA's claims on virtually every point. He provided a 2015 report titled Analysis of Death Services to the Huffington Post.

The Huffington Post reported:

For starters, an incomplete application would never be listed as a pending application, he said. Beyond that, the health records system West is referring to is just that: general health records, not pending applications for enrollment in health care. The VA has only required enrollment in health care since 1998, he said, and there was no formal application process before that. Davis provided an internal VA chart that shows backlogged applications only beginning in 1998.


As for some vets having other insurance, Davis said it is "immaterial and a farce" to suggest that means VA shouldn't be providing vets with the health care they earned.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/07/h...238000-veterans-died-waiting-for-health-care/