Whistleblower Case Study

The first two experts that will be presented are the previous and current Secretary of the Veteran’s Administration. Eric Shinseki was recently replaced by Robert MacDonald. Both men in this distinguished position feel that the U.S government is providing effective care to our disabled military veterans. The third expert is Mike Coffman the U.S Representative for the 6th District of Colorado. He has had a long military career, while fighting on the front lines. Rep. Coffman does not feel that the VA has effectively handled the illnesses that have been acquired while overseas and would like to have a separate government agency oversee these issues.

The problem that the numerous senators are having with The Department of Veterans Affairs is that since November 2014 has only authorized 30,000 patients or 0.37 percent out of 8.5 million cardholders to receive non VA care. This is due they believe to the VHA being too strict on their eligibility criteria “We need to make it easier, not more difficult, for veterans to get the care they need and earned, regardless of whether they live in a rural area or a big city. I am going to continue to press the VA to ensure that this happens,” Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley.

The VA hospital’s reputation of being a place where veterans can go to receive their deserved healthcare was utterly destroyed by this event. This program will have to be completely refurbished to be able to regain the trust of the veterans once again. This has already started because the representative of the VA has already resigned and they are looking to replace him with someone that knows how to get this program up and running. For the mean

According to Druzin, the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to contact tens of thousands of veterans, who had applications for health benefits pending, before they died (Druzin, 2016). Moreover, over 288,000 deceased veterans currently have pending cases within

About 57,436 Veterans chose to use Non-VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) facilities for healthcare service while waiting more than 90 days for appointments with their VA clinicians (Couzner, Ratcliffe, & Crotty 2012). Since post-hospitalization follow-up with primary care providers has a great impact on theses Veterans’ health outcome by promoting recovery and preventing readmissions (Martinez, 2014). The Patient Aligned Care Teams track Veterans’ admission and discharge in VA facilities through the VA’s electronic medical record to ensure timely post-hospitalization with Veterans’ primary care providers. There are no data about post-hospitalization follow up among Veterans who is admitted into Non-VA facilities.

On April 15, 2005, my in-laws lost a civil court case litigating my husband and I for Grandparents rights.

A multitude of investigations were conducted in response to the 2014 VA Scandal with reports and audits showing manipulation of records, long wait times, delays in treatment and overwhelmed caseload by VA practitioners (Wikipedia, n.d., para. 3-7). There are also concerns about the VA’s lack of accountability once

The VA System needs a complete over all we are doing a terrible disservices to our veteran’s.

Every day veterans are unattended to, or their appointments are rescheduled. So many veterans are homeless because they can’t or won’t be hired, to me this is unfair. I know many veterans that would rather not go to the VA or be cared for at the VA because of their lack of being cared. The way I see it is, if the people/ workers at the VA work there they should know what they’re getting themselves into. yes the VA is insane, and deranged etc., but hey if you work there stay committed to help and take good care of our veterans, to help the people who is or have fought for our country as a favor in return to

Funding is the first hurdle that has to be overcome in order for all veterans to receive proper healthcare. The nation is not spending enough money on veteran healthcare programs. Our fighting men and women earned their

The Veterans Administration Medical Center hospital system has been in the national headlines for many years. This has generally not been in a positive way. Many issues have tarnished the reputation of the VA system including, in the distant past questions of sterilization issues reportedly resulting in veterans contracting Hepatitis C from a colonoscope (Tasker, 2011), to more current issues with access and timeliness of care for veterans ("Memo shows VA gaming appointments system to hide wait times", 2014; "Nearly 100 patients died waiting for care from los angeles VA", 2017). Our local Veterans Administration Medical Center is no different and has recently been in the spotlight for similar reasons including wait lists and delay in

The American Nation was stunned after learning that over 40 Veterans died; while waiting to receive an appointment at Phoenix’s Veterans Affairs Health Care System (Bronstein & Griffin, 2014). Internal emails retrieved by CNN investigators confirmed that Phoenix’s Veteran Affair’s Manager failed to ensure that more than 1,400 Veteran receive health care services.

This year has not been kind to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). News in April that several VA facilities were causing veterans to wait months for health care, and some VA officials forced employees to keep fake records to conceal the delays. Gregg Zoroya notes that there were also allegations that the deaths of 40 veterans were caused by the delays at the Phoenix VA hospital, although the VA contends that they were not “conclusively” linked. Nonetheless, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned less than a month later because of the scandal, and in July, the U.S. Senate appointed former Proctor & Gamble CEO Robert A. McDonald as the new secretary. Now that McDonald is in charge of the government’s second-largest agency, he faces significant challenges in righting the massive ship that is the VA—most important of which is the revitalization of the malfunctioning health care system. The issues with the health care system must be addressed in order for veterans to get the medical services they need. As a functional solution, the Department of Veterans Affairs should expand benefits to cover private health care.

In sum, the Veteran population growth from the last 15 years has swelled to astronomical numbers that the VA has not seen since WWII. The resources needed to take care of this population is going to take millions to set right and the fact that there is dishonesty in the claims that some veterans receive is disconcerting but social worker helping this population should never let up in helping to veterans receiving their legal rights to that benefit given to them by law.

Everybody knows that the VA health care system is failing. Veterans are not getting the proper care they deserve due to the funding issues that The Department of Veterans Affairs has. The people who place their lives on the line for ours are not getting the care they are guaranteed as a right. In May of 2011, the Federal Courts reported that the VA violated the rights of the US veterans by failing to provide timely health care for suffering veterans (Williams). Providing treatment to veterans who have war wounds has been a right since Abraham Lincoln was president (Williams). This is the case even after the veterans are out of the service (Williams). The right to health care after the war has been around for centuries. Soldiers are endowed to that right and that right should not be taken away from them. Since The Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling on many aspects the veterans are not always being given that right in a timely manner. VA doctors and staff have hidden and or deleted applications from veterans when they are guaranteed the right to the VA health care. Since 2010, a report from the United States inspector general states that the VA staff has hidden applications and or deleted 10,000 records of veterans