Trump White House didn’t know military from civilian?
Seems the White House Medical Unit didn’t know who was eligible care for what care – or didn’t care.
Under the Trump administration, the White House Medical Unit — a joint Defense Department team that provides medical care for the president, vice president and family members and also manages health services for certain high-level officials — sent ineligible staff members to military hospitals for specialty care and surgeries, the DoD inspector general has found.
Remember when then-Admiral Ronny Jackson was twigged for dispensing too many opiates? It sank his VA Secretary nomination. According to CNN, he was known as “the Candyman”… now, of course, that is Congressman Candyman (R, TX). Apparently he left a legacy.
The medical unit also dispensed hundreds of free prescriptions, including controlled substances, to people in the White House, the DoD inspector general said in a report released Jan. 8.
The federal watchdog determined that the unit, comprised of military medical personnel and DoD civilians and led by an officer with a paygrade of O-6, had received little to no oversight from the Defense Health Agency or the military services for years despite having its own pharmacy and referring White House staff for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia, and elsewhere.
According to the report, from 2017 through 2020, the Defense Department “funded and resourced care for an average of 6 to 20” non-DoD beneficiary patients per week at no cost to them — medical appointments and services that then were unavailable to active-duty military personnel, their family members or retirees. (emphasis added – ed.)
According to the report, unit staff kept poor prescription records, including those for controlled substances like opioids and sleep medications, and distributed medications like Ambien in unmarked pill bottles with no instructions or recordkeeping.
Providers told investigators that they had concerns about the practices, including sending non-eligible persons to military treatment facilities, but feared that if they didn’t provide referrals to high-ranking administration officials, their careers would be affected.
“We feared mostly, you know, for evaluations, for follow?on assignments, for credibility as a professional in our own branches and specialties,” a staff member told the IG.
As a result of the practice, the Pentagon paid for medical care for those non?DoD beneficiaries, according to the report.
The services’ executive medicine programs initially were established to ensure that senior military leaders had quick access to medical care and any treatment they received did not disrupt care and services at regular clinics within the military hospital system.
But that mission has expanded, often to include treating members of Congress and the senior executive service.
The White House Military Office received a draft of the report in May 2020 for review and held it until July 2023. Military.com
Look at that time line and note that this is not a party-specific problem… it’s across two administrations from two different parties. As I have said for a long time, there is really only one political party. And it thinks we are all saps.
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According to the report, from 2017 through 2020,
Thats all orange man bad time frame a single administration, single party.
Agree with your point USAFRetired, however the typical lack of detail and reporting that passes for “journalism” these days leaves open the questions of why the “report” only covers that time frame. I doubt very seriously that Trump himself was involved in the day to day operation of this medical unit and the ones that were running the unit were just doing business in the same old way that it had been run for years. Not condoning what Dr. Feel Good Pill Pusher was doing at all and am just disgusted at BOTH parties and every administration we’ve had for most of my lifetime. Reading into the comments from the article, it was obvious that the never Trumpers were giddy as Taylor’s fans over another “gotcha” on Trump.
I also agree with David and his pointing out what many of us have said for years…The uniparty is alive, well, and practicing “the rules for thee not for me” SOP that has been around for years.
‘Rules for thee, not for me’ has Komatsuequences.
Prepare.
The problem with the politicians and their parties is they view themselves Party members first and Americans last. Until there are Constitutional term limits on the legislative branch the self licking ice cream that is the nations capital is going to be broken.
However, the OP specifically stated
“Look at that time line and note that this is not a party-specific problem… it’s across two administrations from two different parties.”
What I find curious is the current administration sat on it until 2023 before releasing it.
When establishing term limit don’t forget to include professional staffers into the equation sou you don’t end up with a shadow Government
When establishing term limit don’t forget to include professional staffers into the equation so you don’t end up with a shadow Government like we currently have… FIFY
Trump didn’t have single party control for 4 years. He did for 2, but the GOP (swamp rats) did nothing but fight him when they were in control!! They were as bad as the DEMs
Actually, worse,,, they misled and lied, about what they said they felt, thought, were convicted to do etc.
If Trump did nothing else, he proved the DC swamp was real and they don’t give a damn about you!
^^^this^^^
Republocrat, Demican, what’s the difference? It’s like a viper with a head on both ends of its body, and both ends will bite you at every opportunity.
Ahem…
So they’ve been able to figure this out, and were able to identify and prosecute hundreds of people who visited the Capitol on 1/6 using surveillance camera records, but still haven’t been able to figure out who left cocaine in the White House.
It must have been left by the great artist Vincent deMilo whose last words were “Here. Hold my beer.”
I am still voting for the Trumpminator.
No amount of selective investigations is going to change that.
Is anyone going to investigate what has been happening at the Whitehouse since the current administration took over?
No, they won’t.
Dems always get a free pass.
Ditto.
Voting for Trump even if I have to write him in.
Report prepared to reflect particular years, and released only after releasing authority recognized it has a similar problem and put a stop to similar behaviors by current administration, no doubt.
Well, wait a minute,,,, they also don’t know the difference between boy and girl,,,,,, SO?????
Why, we should impeach him for that.