Veterans Affairs Drops Ball on 1.5 MILLION Cases!

If
there’s one thing worse than sending men and women overseas to
fight for ill-defined reasons, it’s abandoning them in moments of
need after they’ve returned to the U.S. Cue the latest story, from
the Washington Examiner, about just how rotten the Department of
Veterans Affairs really is.

More than 1.5 million medical orders were canceled by the
Department of Veterans Affairs without any guarantee the patients
received the treatment or tests they needed,
the Washington Examiner has found.

Since May 2013, veterans’ medical centers nationwide have been
under pressure to clear out 2 million backlogged orders for patient
care or services.

They were given wide latitude to cancel unfilled appointments
more than 90 days old. By April 2014, the backlog of what the
agency calls “unresolved consults” was down to about 450,000.

What happened to other 1.5 million appointments is something
that no one, including top officials at the veterans’ agency, can
answer.