Tag: veterans administration
One Trump Promise Kept?
We’ll see…but why only those few? Aren’t partially disabled Vets also at risk of living with onerous and burdensome debt? full disclosure: I am the son of a now deceased WWII veteran who was 60% disabled.
Trump Signs Order To Ramp Up Prevention of Suicides By Veterans
This past Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to increase efforts by the federal government to improve prevention of suicides by US military veterans. This is good news! President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday amping up efforts to prevent veteran suicide. Veterans are 1.5 times more likely…
President Trump Supports Mental Health Assistance for Vets.
This past week President Donald Trump ordered improved mental health care for veterans who are leaving the service in order to prevent suicides. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing government departments to try to prevent suicide among military veterans by treating mental health problems before they…
Solving The Issues With The Veteran’s Administration Medical Care
Since the major combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan started winding down, there have been repeated and unsolved issues with providing adequate and timely healthcare for our veterans. Despite repeated assurances and varied lip service out of Washington, things just don’t seem to be getting better. Even with new rules…
John McCain Goes Stone Cold Tone Deaf
Last week President Obama visited a Veteran’s Administration hospital in Phoenix AZ. A hospital that has been the focus of issues with VA hospitals and healthcare. A hospital that is a long way from being ‘fixed’. Senator John McCain (R – Arizona) was one of the other elected officials present…
Kelly Westlund calls for VA Secretary Shinseki to resign
From my email inbox comes a press release from Democratic Congressional candidate Kelly Westlund calling for Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign over the recent scandal alleging that as many as 40 veterans died waiting up to 21 months for care at a VA hospital in Phoenix,…
Roll Call: White House Deploys Rob Nabors to Help Shinseki Fix VA
I’m kind of torn on this account, because I think Shinseki is in a no-win situation. He was handed the military victims (past, present, and future) of two wars, many sustaining live-long disabilities (prostheses for missing limbs, PTSD, etc.), and on top of those challenges Congress cut or underfunded the…
OK raise your hand if this surprises you!
H/T EzKool.com Rep. Chip Cravaack won the midterm election for Minnesota in 2010, thanks in part to his extreme Teaparty platform. The newly elected congressman even voted for the Paul Ryan Teaparty backed budget, that will end medicare and replace it with a voucher program which seniors would be expected…
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