The Patriot Post® · VA in Minneapolis Denied Care to Veterans

Remember the scandalous treatment of veterans by the Department of Veterans Affairs? It may have been driven from the headlines by other major fires in the world, but the problems haven’t been solved. KARE 11 of Minneapolis reports the latest: “Employees at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center were pressured to falsify patient appointment dates and medical records in order to hide serious delays, potentially comprising the health of veterans, according to former employees, internal emails and a complaint filed to the VA’s office of the Inspector General.” But it gets worse: “In some cases, the employees say they were instructed to falsify medical records by writing that patients had declined follow-up treatments when, in reality, they say the veterans had never been contacted. Patient’s lives may be at risk, they fear, because they say some cases involved suspected colon cancer.” In other words, this isn’t merely a case of delayed care; it’s one of denied care. And then the whistleblowers were fired. ObamaCare will only exacerbate these problems. More…