One-Third of Our Military Veterans on the Medical Wait List Have Already Died

14 Jul, 2015 by Warner Todd Huston

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In yet another Obama failure, a new report has found that a third of our military veterans that were placed on the Veteran’s Administration medical waiting list have already died without getting the medical care they needed.

An internal Veterans Affairs Department report has found that Obama’s VA is killing our elderly and sick veterans by the hundreds.

A review of veteran death records provided to the Huffington Post found that, as of April, 847,822 veterans were awaiting healthcare and that of those, 238,647 were already deceased.

The report was handed over by Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA’s Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta

He also sent copies to the House and Senate VA panels and to the White House.

A VA spokeswoman told Huffington Post that the department can’t subtract dead applicants from the list and that some may never have completed an application but remain on the back log.

Spokeswoman Walinda West also said that more than 80 percent veterans who come to the department “have either Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare or some other private insurance.”

“Consequently, some in pending status may have decided to use other options instead of completing their eligibility application.”

Davis dismissed that argument.

“VA wants you to believe, by virtue of people being able to get health care elsewhere, it’s not a big deal. But VA is turning away tens of thousands of veterans eligible for health care,” he said. “VA is making it cumbersome, and then saying, ‘See? They didn’t want it anyway.'”

Don’t forget, folks, THIS is the first place to look to see how Obamacare will “work.”