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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration breaks campaign promise, purges 200,000 VA healthcare applications
"The current state of the Department of Veterans Affairs is absolutely unacceptable, presidential candidate Donald Trump said when speaking at a rally on Oct. 31, 2015, in front of the retired battleship USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Va.
"Over 300,000 and this is hard to believe, and its actually much more than that now over 300,000 veterans died waiting for care," said Trump.
Trumps strong condemnation of the Obama administrations handling of the backlog of hundreds of thousands of veteran benefits claims made him the overwhelming choice for many veteran voters in 2016.
But after two years in the White House, the Trump administration has decided to execute a plan to purge 200,000 applications for VA healthcare caused by known administrative errors within VAs enrollment process and enrollment system problems that had already been documented by the Office of the Inspector General in 2015 and 2017.
In purging this massive backlog of applications, the VA is declaring the applications to be incomplete due to errors by the applicants, despite the OIG findings and in violation of the promise Trump made to fix the system. This purge has the dual effect of letting the VA avoid the work of processing the applications and absolving the agency of any responsibility for veterans delayed access to health and disability benefits.
Under the supervision of Dr. Richard Stone, the executive in charge of the Veterans Health Administration, VHA managers last November instructed the agencys IT staff members to purge over 200,000 pending healthcare applications.
"Over 300,000 and this is hard to believe, and its actually much more than that now over 300,000 veterans died waiting for care," said Trump.
Trumps strong condemnation of the Obama administrations handling of the backlog of hundreds of thousands of veteran benefits claims made him the overwhelming choice for many veteran voters in 2016.
But after two years in the White House, the Trump administration has decided to execute a plan to purge 200,000 applications for VA healthcare caused by known administrative errors within VAs enrollment process and enrollment system problems that had already been documented by the Office of the Inspector General in 2015 and 2017.
In purging this massive backlog of applications, the VA is declaring the applications to be incomplete due to errors by the applicants, despite the OIG findings and in violation of the promise Trump made to fix the system. This purge has the dual effect of letting the VA avoid the work of processing the applications and absolving the agency of any responsibility for veterans delayed access to health and disability benefits.
Under the supervision of Dr. Richard Stone, the executive in charge of the Veterans Health Administration, VHA managers last November instructed the agencys IT staff members to purge over 200,000 pending healthcare applications.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/trump-administration-breaks-campaign-promise-purges-200-000-va-healthcare-applications
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Trump administration breaks campaign promise, purges 200,000 VA healthcare applications (Original Post)
CousinIT
May 2019
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sheshe2
(83,751 posts)1. Just in time for Memorial Day.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. "drumpf the vile" is exterminating our veterans by denying them with
well deserved healthcare.
JohnnyLib2
(11,211 posts)4. Visibility is truly needed for this travesty.
K & R
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)5. What else do you expect from Cadet Bonespurs?
Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)6. And Trump will boast he solved the backlog problem at the VA!!
badhair77
(4,217 posts)7. Note this is from the right-leaning Washington Examiner.
Purging applications is abhorrent.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)8. Seems like Dr. Richard Stone
needs to fear some disabled veterans.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)9. "Support the troo ... nah, never mind."
"I've got a wall to pay for."