Friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford Va Regional Office as well as the director of the Va Connected Health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. Just one example, k. Robert lewis, a veteran Service Officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vfw has received outstanding service, but that there is a lack of providers, nurses, doctors, staff that have caused the delays and hindered veterans access to care. I know that the veterans access to care act authorized 5 billion to enable the va to hire Additional Health care providers and clinical staff, but secretary mcdonald, you have identified the practical obstacles to meeting the needs and hiring more doctors and other professionals, and that is one of the central challenges of our time,
Of care. Many experienced obstacles while trying to establish needed care being treated in the emergency room. The lack of followup coordination and quality and continuity of care, many of these is troubling and unacceptable. The most troubling issue described in the report was the awareness of the ongoing scheduling and challenges that many facilities face. Furthermore they had opportunities to address the systemic culture of inappropriate scheduling practices. They did not act to address the inappropriate practices of manipulation of wait time data. This lack of accountability was engrajed by the decision to waive the fiscal year 2013 annual requirement for the directors to certify compliance with the scheduling directors. Why would that be waived when they knew there were questionable scheduling practices occurring within the medical facilities . The magnitude is demonstrated by the 225 allegations at the Phoenix Health care system in the more than 445 similar allegations at the va
Americans will have air strikes insurgents in ni iraq. Up to 35 when the Islamic State in june. Ame apparent that question also asked if were ameanable to expanding strikes to insurgents syria. 65 said they were. Army ked about the u. S. Urdish military oh against the insurgents, 68 said they would be in favor of that. To does the president need say to the American Public. Guest they need to make the case. War is bad. War is bad in the moral sense. Nations tely civilized have to resort to it to protect innocent people and protect their own citizens. Convince ent needs to the American People that this is the right thing to do to realistic threat, not the hype, but the real poses and lay s out at least the outline of the action s actions he feels we should take. A big fan of the president stridently delineating what were not going to do. A military standpoint, its nice to keep the enemy off balance. Elling him right up front what were not going to do, x, y, and z, gives an advantage to t
Federal courts can do, even in horrific terrorism cases, even in cases with more than 1,000 people hurt by the crime in question. Even in cases with Huge National security and intelligence implications, even in cases where the defendant is an absolutely unrepentant International Terrorist who wants every chance he can get in a u. S. Court tomorrow denounce the United States and try to recruit other people to his cause. The Ramzi Youssef case after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is part of how we know as a country that terrorism cases can be handled and handled well by our normal courts. You dont need to invent some Kangaroo Court system somewhere else to handle serious cases like that. The Ramzi Youssef trial took about five months. It was a long trial. He was convicted. At the end he was sentenced to life in prison plus 240 years. When his conviction was appealed to a higher court, the Appeals Court looked at the conduct of that fivemonth trial and said there was nothing wrong wi
Reporter Andrew Jones of Asheville Watchdog returned to More to the Story to share the latest on Mission Hospital and HCA Healthcare, entering June. Numerous doctors, nurses, and staff have excited the hospital for some time and many citizens in the region feel like they are not receiving quality care. In this report, Andrew shares that the future of Mission's Urology Services is now concerning as well.