The Veteran’s Affairs scandal sure has been forgotten fast hasn’t it?
Vet Douglas Chase died of brain cancer in 2012…and he just received a letter granting him with a doctors appointment through the VA.
The Department of Veteran Affairs is apologizing for finally responding to a hospital appointment request letter, two years too late.
Suzanne Chase of Acton, Massachusetts, has been working to put the pain of losing her husband, Douglas Chase, to brain cancer, almost two years ago.
In 2012, a year after her husband’s diagnosis, Chase attempted to move his care in Boston to a nearby veteran’s hospital in Bedford. She said they waited for four months with no reply but Doug died in August 2012.
Just two weeks ago, Chase received a letter from the VA finally responding to her appointment request.
“The letter invited him to make an appointment with primary care at the VA, if he so desired. Then at the bottom they said they wanted a quick response,” Chase told ABC’s Boston affiliate WCVB.
The VA letter concluded, “We are committed to providing primary care in a timely manner and would greatly appreciate a prompt response.”
“I was absolutely stunned, to say the least. Really? Seriously? They are sending me a letter now? I don’t have words to describe it,” said Chase.
As if adding salt to the wound, her Vietnam veteran husband was denied veterans funeral benefits because he was never actually treated at a veterans’ hospital.
“I feel like our vets should be our number one priority. I am concerned that a healthy veteran with a medical condition will have to wait until it becomes a catastrophic condition. This isn’t fair for people who serve our country,” said Chase.
“We regret any distress our actions have caused to the Veteran’s widow and family. At the Department of Veterans Affairs our most important mission is to provide the high quality health care and benefits Veterans have earned and deserve – where and when they need it,” a VA spokesperson told ABC News.
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I’ve not forgotten the VAMC scandal. those thieves.
If I were a Veteran or a family member of one, I would be Raging angry. Actually, EVERYONE SHOULD BE.
Unbelievable!!! RIP Douglas Chase.
ABOUT TIME ABC!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAKES ME SICK.
That really makes us proud of our government $#%&!@*s doesn’t it!
Obama Press Secretary is heard saying “We tried to help. It is his fault he died so fast.
Least he was getting in early!
My God,every one of our veterans deserve a speedy appt.
This is such an ungodly un honoring way to show our support for our veteran’s considering how that they put their life on the line for us and this is the best the government can do to take care of our veteran’s is to set this man up with a doctor’s appointment 2 years after the man died from brain cancer I just wonder what kind of a lame duck excuse they gave to his wife if he was married or much less to any of his family just wonder how our government would feel if it was one of their loved ones whom they loved very dearly or their wife or husband or son or daughter we American’s that are veteran’s deserve better treatment than this the dingbats in government can’t even make sure our own veterans that are protecting us have or are receiving the proper medical care and in a timely manner because they can’t even run the government the right way so it should not come as a surprise that since the stupid healthcare bill was shoved off on us that everything else would be screwed up too what a shame what a sham what a scam blam your government at it’s worst and it’s not just veteran’s that are having this problem this is affecting everyone of us except for the fat cats in Washington that are like rats ready to eat a piece of cheese and not leave us any well anyway you get the picture this has to stop we need to make them more accountable to we true American’s