Were bonuses tied to VA wait times?

2 reports released this week investigate medical system

Chelsea J. Carter CNN via Click2Houston.com 5/30/2014

(CNN) – It’s one of the more disturbing revelations to arise from an investigation into fatal delays in care at Veterans Affairs medical centers: Employee bonuses appear to be one factor behind the manipulation of patient wait times in at […]

Liberals Wanted to use the VA as a Model for National Health Care

Daniel Greenfield FrontPage Magazine 5/23/2014

ObamaCare could have been even worse. (via James Taranto)

In 2009, the Campaign for America’s Future, a collection of influential lefties within the Democratic Party, ran a blog post that proposed to use the VA as a national health care model.

CAF events had featured Obama, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth […]

Veterans Affairs officials purged 1.5 million unfinished medical orders

Mark Flatten The Washington Examiner 5/1/2014

More than 1.5 million medical orders were canceled by the Department of Veterans Affairs without any guarantee the patients received the treatment or tests they needed, the Washington Examiner has found.

Since May 2013, veterans’ medical centers nationwide have been under pressure to clear out 2 million backlogged orders […]

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