Government health care at it’s finest. Only a day after a VA representative appeared on Fox News Sunday and unsuccessfully tried to defend the so called death book, we have a new revelation that should be a wake up call for anyone that thinks a government run health care plan is a good idea.
An apparent coding error led to 1200 vets being informed by the VA that they had the incurable, and eventually fatal, Lou Gehrig’s disease. Of course it wasn’t true, but imagine being the guy or gal that got the false diagnosis.
Don’t you think that something on a scale like this would have raised a red flag? Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that Lou Gehrig’s disease is not that commonplace, and somebody would have verified this before the death notices went out. But we’re talking about a government run health plan. The same VA that runs the Walter Reed madhouse, the same VA that lost the private data of millions of vets (were you one of them?), and the same VA that to this day has the death book on their website, the same book they recommend doctor’s use to counsel vets, not necessarily on end of life decisions, but for things far less imposing, such as unhappiness.
That’s right, “the blues.” Is your life not worth living because you have the blues? The government wants to know. Tammy Duckworth, an assistant secretary at the V.A. tried to say that the book was being revised and was no longer on the website, but Chris Wallace showed her that indeed, it was still there. She stuck to her guns though. She either didn’t realize, or was lying. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt. Is it a death book? You tell me.
This is just the tip of the Va iceberg. Imagine 17% of the economy subject to government coding errors. Imagine the DMV doing the coding. And you have to think that coding is probably the least of our worries.
I watched and cringed as she adamantly defended Team O. Poor Tammy, she will land under the bus soon. I honestly don’t believe that she knows the truth.
I can’t really say anything bad about Tammy. She lost her legs in war and came back to lead a full life. To be honest, I don’t know if I could muster that kind of fire. I hate to think that she’s just being used as an Obama stooge.
Yes that type of notice could give a person heart trouble! Even if it was true, why would the VA send a notice out instead of calling a person to come in so they could be told in person, not by a notice man that would be wrong!
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Goodtimepolitics makes a good point. Is that the way the government intends to notify people and their family of bad news, through inpersonal letters? This whole thing is a disaster waiting to happen, the government can’t run the healthcare that they already provide.
Who does that? “We regret to inform you that you have a fatal disease.” What reputable doctor or institution would do that?
Answer: A doctor in a country ruled by a dictator! Wow! I think I got that one right huh?
A dictator with a disaster of a plan. He won’t suffer from its failure we will. He acts like America is some kind of hobby project for him.
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TedCare or ObamaCare? I choose TedCare not to take a pain pill as Obama suggested to the American people because treatment for cancer was to costly! Ted must of wanted to live no matter what the cost cause he got the best healthcare treatment available.
Ted would never have been on Obamacare. That’s just one of outrages of this plan. It was made for us, not them.