Veteran Health Care
Quick takes: Kim threats, VA screening, Uniform kerfluffle
Well, Fatty da Kim is once again threatening to nuke joint South Korean – US exercises. Must be November. North Korea issued a veiled threat Tuesday to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history,” an escalation of its fiery rhetoric targeting the ongoing large-scale […]
Some good news for a change!
Vet Suicide rate dips It isn’t a final solution, but it is encouraging that the suicide rate for veterans dropped for 2020, down to about 17 a day in the most recent year for which data has been compiled. That is still a suicide rate roughly double that of our civilian brethren, but the decrease […]
VA to begin offering abortions in cases of rape/health risks to veteran
The Supreme Courth overturned Roe v. Wade, so Department of Veteran’s Affairs has announced they will begin offering abortions to select veterans and dependents. Huh? The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer abortion access to veterans and eligible dependents in cases of rape, incest and pregnancies that endanger the life or health of an […]
NJ VA home Covid death suits
Lawsuits filed over the high number of deaths at two NJ VA homes are showing how bad decisions by unqualified people killed off hundreds of patients. One nurse at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial at Menlo Park …went to Walmart to buy fabric to make her own (mask), she was threatened that “there could be […]
PTSD and TBI from your service? The Canadian VA says, “We’d like to help you kill yourself”
Canada has a reputation for being a place with nice scenery, nice fishing, and, above all, nice people. Apparently those that are part of the Veterans Affairs Canada bureaucracy are heartless fucks who would rather see struggling veterans get access to Canada’s relatively new doctor assisted suicide (called Medical Assistance in Dying, MAiD). Intended to […]
Army Veteran Fakes Blindness and Defrauds VA – Now Gets Prison
According to the Marine Corps Times and several other media outlets, John Paul Cook is Army veteran who faked blindness for nearly $1M is going to prison By Jonathan Lehrfeld | Jul 25, 06:48 PM A former soldier who defrauded Veterans Affairs out of nearly $1 million by pretending to have a service-connected disability was […]
SCOTUS Rules on Burn Pit Veteran’s Case
Good news for Army Reserve Capt. Le Roy Torres, and all under the protections of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). In Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, SCOTUS held 5-4 that Congress’s war powers allow it to subject non-consenting states to money damages lawsuits under the USERRA. While deployed in […]
VA suspends Lawrence Gaillard without pay
As you guys remember, Lawrence Gaillard was a VA patient advocate who assaulted an elderly veteran. As of the time of the posting, there was a question about what action would the VA take against him regarding his VA employment. Thanks to “Channel 2 Investigates” presenting the video of the assault, events got underway that […]
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