Vets, better check your appointments. Theses pricks are at it again!! Texas congressman joins calls for Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to explain mass medical test purge exposed by Examiner Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, shown here in 2008, joined earlier calls from key House Republicans who asked for answers from the Veterans Administration. A Texas congressman joined demands that Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki explain the mass purge of medical appointments disclosed last week by the Washington Examiner. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, wants to know who allowed backlogged orders for medical tests or other procedures to be “administratively closed,” meaning the appointments were cancelled but the veterans did not get the care that was ordered. Olson also asked in a letter sent Wednesday to Shinseki how many valid appointments have been cancelled and what the agency is doing to ensure hospital administrators are not using the closures to “game the system” by making it appear they are fixing backlogs of treatment orders. Citing congressional hearings and internal documents from the veterans agency, the Examiner reported Feb. 25 that about 40,000 appointments were cancelled in Los Angeles and another 13,000 in Dallas. VA has refused to say where else the mass-purging practice was used or how many appointments were administratively cancelled nationwide. “I was shocked to read news reports that document the systematic and widespread practice of senior Department of Veterans Affairs officials not only condoning, but encouraging the deletion of medical appointment orders in a false attempt to reduce the inexcusable backlog,” Olson, a former Navy pilot, said in the letter to Shinseki. “It is shocking and unacceptable for the VA to treat Americas veterans in a way that risks their health and livelihood,” said Olson, whose district is in the Houston area. “You and I both know that the men and women who risk their lives to defend our country deserve the very...
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:00:21 +0000
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