[From article]
Did you know, for example, that the VA keeps a database on "disgruntled" and "disruptive" vets that results in arbitrarily restricted care?
Disabled Air Force veteran and veterans advocate/attorney Benjamin Krause has been raising questions about the system for months and warning his peers. Under the VA policy on "patient record flags" (PRFs), federal bureaucrats can classify vets as "threats" based on assessments of their "difficult," "annoying" and "non-compliant" behavior.
The VA manual says the flags "are used to alert Veterans Health Administration medical staff and employees of patients whose behavior and characteristics may pose a threat either to their safety, the safety of other patients, or compromise the delivery of quality health care."
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the Disruptive Behavior Committees are secret panels "that decide whether or not to flag veterans without providing due process first. The veteran then has his or her right of access to care restricted without prior notice."
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And "trouble-makers" who are educated and know their rights are especially vulnerable.
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Obama's Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service is now providing muscle to deter sick vets from protesting in front of VA hospitals.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin062514.php3#.U7I6Mt0--yM
Jewish World Review
June 25, 2014 / 27 Sivan, 5774
Exposed: How the VA Red-Flags 'Disruptive' Vets
By Michelle Malkin
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[From article]
"The problem is not just waiting lists. It is utter fraudulent expenditure of enormous budgets, not on veterans, but on overpaid lazy, surly civilian employees that often make it clear that a) they do not like veterans and b) that the veteran is actually a nuisance. The problem is endemic, at every level, in the VA. The unfortunate fact of the matter is this: Veterans have become incidental to the process at the VA."
The system is "an enormous cash cow, warehousing tens of thousands of overpaid employees" who "keep the gravy-train rolling."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin061814.php3#.U7I3MN0--yM
Jewish World Review
Exposed: How the VA Red-Flags 'Disruptive' Vets
By Michelle Malkin
* * *
[From article]
"The problem is not just waiting lists. It is utter fraudulent expenditure of enormous budgets, not on veterans, but on overpaid lazy, surly civilian employees that often make it clear that a) they do not like veterans and b) that the veteran is actually a nuisance. The problem is endemic, at every level, in the VA. The unfortunate fact of the matter is this: Veterans have become incidental to the process at the VA."
The system is "an enormous cash cow, warehousing tens of thousands of overpaid employees" who "keep the gravy-train rolling."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin061814.php3#.U7I3MN0--yM
Jewish World Review
June 18, 2014 / 20 Sivan, 5774
A Fed-Up Veteran Blasts VA's 'Lie, Delay, Deny' Abyss
By Michelle Malkin
A Fed-Up Veteran Blasts VA's 'Lie, Delay, Deny' Abyss
By Michelle Malkin
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