Ocasio-Cortez declares VA ‘isn’t broken,’ already provides top-notch care

Posted by mminnick 6 years, 2 months ago to News
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"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed during a recent town hall event that the Department of Veterans Affairs “isn’t broken" and is actually providing “some of the highest quality” care to veterans.
“All I can think of is that classic refrain that my parents always taught me growing up, is that: ‘if it ain't broke, don't fix it,’" she said in New York, as part of her argument against privatizing aspects of the scandal-scarred agency's work."
Another example of how out of sync she is with the real world.
I grant you that the VA is better but to say "It ain't broke" is far from the truth. There are still many veterens that can't get the help they need and deserve..

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  • Posted by Roland_Porter 6 years, 2 months ago
    Yeah no Ocasio-Cortez, that's wholly incorrect.
    I have an army friend who's lucky he got any care at all. VA screwed him when he needed help for his trauma. He needed to go through private channels to get what he needed.
    He's fine now, but make no mistake: VA doesn't care about your troops.
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  • Posted by Joseph-C-Moore 6 years, 2 months ago
    I am a Navy 30 year retiree using the Manhattan VA and have found all services to be excellent. Another VA that I used in Wilkesbarre PA was deplorable as they let me wait all day in the waiting room and never called me for my appointment. I will never go back to them.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 6 years, 2 months ago
    from a bartender who, after 4 1/2 billions is convinced the world will end in 12 yrs...surrender now...
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 6 years, 2 months ago
    I very much support a statement that I have heard proposed many times in the past. We should require ALL of Congress to use the VA ONLY for their medical care. I would add the caveat that they have to wait inline just like any Vet does for services.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 2 months ago
    She just wants to take away any hint of gratitude from Trump. Its so easy to dissect her useless emotionally based and hidden agenda prattling
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  • Posted by Spiderwilliams 6 years, 2 months ago
    A friend of mine was diagnosed with terminal cancer and treated at the VA. His family was told after he was initially diagnosed to come in for a consultation and briefing. Dates and times were mailed out locally to the family. They received this mail two days after the appointment was to take place. That's not broke that's fuped duck!
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 6 years, 2 months ago
    As a 40 Mile Vet I can say the VA is still broken. They do try, but the bureaucracy is just to hard to overcome most often. It can take 3 months to get a Care In The Community consult. The staff is also frustrated by this. OAC is a blank-out who wants to tout the VA as a good example of single payer health care. Fail.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Do as I say--not as I do. Why? I am your more than equal elite better--and you are not."
    Okay, so me dino put words into her buck-toothed wannabe commie tyrannical bite. Me just being an allosaur is all.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 2 months ago
    Yesterday, me dino read and then heard on TV about Trump agreeing with that ding-a-ling.
    Why?
    Because the Tangerine Tornado has either fixed a broken VA or is at least in the positive process of doing so.
    You can bet The Donald enjoyed the tongue-in-cheeck irony.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 6 years, 2 months ago
    The sad thing is that Donald Trump just agreed with her. :( https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/politi...

    Having just been to a VA hospital to visit someone there, I can just say that they are staffed by people who mean well but who are overwhelmed. There aren't enough staff to meet the needs.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oboy! Exceller that was a really great Post! Or you could have said 'they found she didn't have one'..lol.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, not entirely. The bright thing is, veterans can seek health care at our teaching hospitals which are some of the best in America. Thanks to Mr. Trump!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll give you an example of how 'good' the VA Hospital is in Houston. My disabled daughter-in-law had to push her 200 pound 6'4" husband all over that place in a wheelchair. No help from anyone. Then when he was hospitalized for a staph infection in his foot, the nurses wouldn't go in his room! Florence Nightengales one and all!
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  • Posted by exceller 6 years, 2 months ago
    Just read this comment and wanted to share it:

    "THIS JUST IN: Sources close to AOC say she's just thrilled her IQ test came back negative."

    🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 2 months ago
    My one data point (meaningless for drawing conclusions) was when my grandfather went there. His family urged him to go to the university hospital across the street. He liked to be with other vets. My impression was he got inferior care. The docs were good, but they were very uncoordinated. The left hand didn't know the right hand was doing. When his surgery was delayed, one of his adult children politely asked how long they'd leave him off his heart meds while waiting for surgery. The nurse said politely but with a bit of gov't worker indifference, "I don't know. You know more than I do." That is not something I like to hear from healthcare professions.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 2 months ago
    In the quote she's making the conservative argument that things should stay the same and the burden is on those would change them. In issues of gov't owning the means of production, I think the burden should always be on those who want government ownership. It's the same for the government owning and operating housing on military bases for people who don't have a military need to live on base. If the government can just provide money, people can spend it where they like, and the gov't can say out of unrelated businesses like running hospitals.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    She is such a twit! Some guy mentioned on TV today we shouldn't take her seriously. Who would? She is such a good Socialist, she flies back and forth from NY to DC and doesn't bother with the train for goodness sakes!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 2 months ago
    Hah! She needs to get off her butt and go visit a VA Hospital. She'd change her tune! My oldest son is a Disabled Veteran and at my behest, he wrote off the VA Hospital and goes to Memorial Herman which is a teaching hospital funded by the Herman Foundation!
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