A year after all the fake outrage by Barack Obama and politicians over the Veterans Administration (VA), the VA is still as corrupt as ever! They’re a bunch of civilian leeches pulling a federal paycheck, who won’t do squat for our veterans!
As a military veteran, when I learned of this story, I had to bring it to light. Chris Dorsey, 33, an Iraq war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress received a despicable response from a desk clerk when he traveled to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Georgia for care. This came after he was turned away from an earlier VA facility in the same day.
“We’re not accepting any new patients,” the VA staff member told vet Chris Dorsey in a video he posted to YouTube…
“The VA’s not accepting any new patients?” he asked in the footage.
“Not at this clinic,” the staffer at the Oakwood community-based outpatient clinic responded.
Dorsey thanked him and walked out of what he told the Military Times is the second clinic in northern Georgia to turn him away in recent days, even as the federal agency trumpeted its so-called “PTSD awareness month” in June.
Now explain to me how heroes who helped to defend this country are going to deal with this? If there are too many patients for a given area, can’t the local doctors be hired temporarily to deal with under staffing? To not even take his name and say when there is an opening, we will call and set up an appointment is nothing but a disgrace to all those who have ever served.
Officials with the Atlanta VA Medical Center are now reaching out to Dorsey “to determine his need for services and offer the appropriate care,” representatives for the VA said in a statement to the news.
“The message Mr. Dorsey was given, as seen on the video, was completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” a VA spokesperson said. “VA staff should have established a full understanding of Mr. Dorsey’s medical situation and determined if an appointment was available for him at another location or if he was eligible for the Choice program and could be seen outside the VA.
Dorsey filmed the exchange in this video below:
How do you feel about this? Are you as outraged as I am? Share this story with your friends and family and add your comments below. This is unacceptable!
H/T: Military Times, 13WMAZ, YouTube
You blaming Obama when you should be blaming the repubs, they the ones cutting funding and closing VA hospitals (Dubya did it twice) with no alternative plans, just cuts and do what you can. So don’t be surprised if things aren’t being done for our Vets, but they been suffering since the Viet Nam days and still are, but Obama has not cut anything, and it’s Bush’s wars that put our modern vets in here and he sold them down the river. OK, let’s fix it, get the repub controlled congress to turn loose a lot of money and lets truly address the poor care our vets are getting. A lot of democrats will vote with you on this function, but the silly repubs are greedy and would probably throw another bill about defunding Obamacare on any VA bill and try to get Obama to veto it. Your repubs are horrible in how they treat the vets, they are down here with the working people as far as disability checks go. So instead of griping about Obama, how about doing something to fix the problem, the problem isn’t Obama, but it is the greedy repubs.
I have been dealing with the VA on several issues with no satisfaction. On June 11th I was scheduled for a followup to an MRI on my painful back. The earliest appointment was August 5th, so they said I qualified for the new program to see a local Dr. I was told they would send me some paperwork with instructions on how to get an appointment. I was then told to wait 7 days after I got the paperwork to call for an appointment. I called the Veterans Choice on June 18th. They took my information, asked me what Dr I wanted to see and then said they would call back in 5 business days. Today, 18 days later I still had not heard from them so I called them. They did some checking and said they had no record of an authorization but they knew I had called on June 18th. So I am back to the beginning trying to get a local appointment. At this rate I will probably end up taking the VA appointment as that is rapidly approaching. In the meantime my Dr has ordered a colonoscopy for some other problems. The wait is exactly 2 months. They didn’t even offer the option of using Veterans Choice. (Not that I’m in a hurry for a colonoscopy:)). I have numerous complaints about the Dr’s at the local CBOC that I have sent to my Senator. The VA response is for me to drive 100 miles round trip to the next closest CBOC rather than them dealing with the problems with staff. In the private sector at least one if not 3 of the drs would have been fired for their actions. The VA seems more interested in protecting themselves rather than taking care of the veterans.
When does the rebellion begin? It cannot be far away.
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Is the guy behind the desk still employed? If so because this was a “first offence” how long was he suspended for?
O you mean my experience in the private sector employee relations is not relevant to relations with “public servants” who deal with vets and other members of the public.