Showing posts with label Veterans Administration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Veterans Administration. Show all posts

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Admission--Caught On Tape!

June 07, 2015 Daily Caller , Drug Addiction 0 Comments
Video Shows Officials Saying That The VA Is Creating Addicts

By Jonah Bennett, Jun. 4, 2015, Daily Caller

New hidden camera footage released by award-winning journalist James O’Keefe reveals officials and employees stating the Department of Veterans Affairs encourages a pill-pushing opioid culture.

During the course of an undercover interview, Dr. Maureen McCarthy, deputy chief of patient services for the Veterans Health Administration, admitted overprescription practices are a significant issue across the country.


“It’s not you know what people think of as sick patients, so much,” McCarthy said, referring to the recipients of opioids. “It’s people that have drug problems, some of which are caused by us and our prescribing.”

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

"Veterans Affairs Wind Turbine, Built for $2.3 Mil, Stands Dormant"--Have they tried kicking it?

March 20, 2014 St. Cloud , Veterans Administration 0 Comments
By Tom Steward, Townhall.com
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A  $2.3 million federal stimulus project at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Cloud is giving green energy initiatives a bad name.
A 600-kilowatt wind turbine — some 245 foot tall — stands on the wintry VA grounds, frozen in time and temperature, essentially inoperable for the past 1 1/2 years. No one is working to fix it, though many attempts were made to repair the turbine, once billed as a model green energy project.

“The St. Cloud VA is a hospital, and our focus is on our patients and we like to think that we treat our veterans very well here,” said Barry Venable, a public affairs officer for the VA in St. Cloud. “We’re embarrassed that this turbine does not operate as advertised.”

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