H/T Kelly Bass Kelly Bass Please pass this on to any veterans you know.. In Harris v. Shinseki, a Circuit Court ruled the VA must follow established Veterans Administration policy and cannot unfairly deny or terminate a veteran’s right to due process in disability claims adjudication or appeal by claiming a veteran did not fill out the proper claims form. Make it harder to claim disability!! There is a serious backlog of disability claims in the hands of the Veteran’s Affairs Department. It is so big in fact under the Obama Administration that during the sequester, The VA was given an additional $300 million to handle the backlog. westernjournalism/obamas-va-plans-screw-veterans/ OBAMA 2008: VA WILL BE LEADER OF HEALTH CARE REFORM N.Y. Times columnist cited huge success story of socialized medicine wnd/2014/05/obama-2008-va-will-become-a-leader-of-health-care-reform/ Obama to Veterans: VA Backlog Is Easing a.abcnews/images/Politics/AP_obama_orlando_lt_130810_16x9_608.jpg “We are turning the tide,” Obama said, promising “paperless systems so the backlog doesn’t come back.” He also promoted the Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” and the nearing end of America’s war in Afghanistan. “Our war in Afghanistan has entered the final chapter, more of our troops are coming home,” Obama said, citing the 34,000-troop draw-down slated for this winter. Soon, Obama said, more will come home and “our war in Afghanistan will be over.” Hitting on a recent theme, the president defended his health-care reforms. In his series of economic speeches over the last month, Obama has aggressively attacked critics of the law. “Some folks are out there trying to scare people, including veterans,” Obama said. “Don’t let them fool you. No one’s taking away your benefits.” Obama touted the new regional insurance exchanges scheduled to be up and running this fall. “The good news is if you’re among … the more than one million veterans who don’t have health insurance, starting October 1st you’ll have a new option,” Obama said. “Because of the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies will no longer be able to discriminate against you or deny you coverage because of preexisting conditions.” The federal budget sequester won’t endanger VA benefits, Obama assured the audience, noting a 40 percent boost in the VA budget and proposed increases in Obama’s current budget proposal. “But I want to tell you going forward the best way to protect the VA care you have earned is to get rid of this sequester altogether,” Obama said. The president touted $100 million spent on research of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), conditions that have gained national recognition as veterans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan seeking care. “I’m not gonna be satisfied until every veteran, every man and woman in uniform gets the help and support they need to stay strong,” Obama said, pledging to work to end the wave of suicides among veterans. Obama also said his administration will launch a program called “8 Keys to Success,” in which 250 community colleges and universities have partnered with the Department of Education to help veterans earn degrees, and he pledged to keep up efforts to end veteran homelessness. “The road to recovery is often such a long haul, and America needs to be there for you during that long haul,” Obama said. abcnews.go/blogs/politics/2013/08/obama-to-veterans-va-backlog-is-easing/ https://myhealth.va.gov/index.html Department of Veterans Affairs employees destroyed veterans’ medical records to cancel backlogged exam requests [AUDIO] 10:48 PM 02/24/2014 “Anything over a year old should be canceled,” replied a female official. “Canceled or scheduled?” asked the male official. “Canceled. … Your backlog should start at April ’07,” the female official replied, later adding, ”a lot of those patients either had their studies somewhere else, had their surgery … died, don’t live in the state. … It’s ridiculous.” “That actually happened,” Mitchell said. “We had that discussion in November 2008 and then in March 2009 they started to delete the exams. Once you cancel or delete an order it automatically cancels out that record” so that no record of the exam requests remained. Mitchell tried to blow the whistle on the scheme and ended up being transferred out of his department and eventually losing his job. El-Saden, according to Mitchell, was “the person who said destroy the records.” carried out during the Obama administration’s management of VA. https://youtube/watch?v=XnvhdV2DD0g “I actually filed a complaint with the VA [Inspector General] IG and the office of special counsel. The IG requested if I had any documentation. They wanted names. I gave them [about] a thousand names,” Mitchell said. ”The list I turned into the IG went all the way back to 1997.” “I filed the initial complaint with the IG. … The IG instead of doing their own investigation just gave it to the facility and made them aware of my complaint.” westernjournalism/obamas-va-plans-screw-veterans/2/
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