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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The care is getting SO bad. And now the Doctors in Portland, OR circle the wagons against the well being of the patients,(who got them their jobs!), don’t give a damn about the vets, treat the vets like S–t and pond scum, all after you have waited months for them to grace you with their presence! It is a sickening waste of time to go to the clinics and hospitals for nothing but insults and another appointment that accomplishes nothing. A clinic manager made me seek care from a private doctor because a psycho, past retirement Dr. refused to refill my medication for neuro brain damage! I am a bedridden invalid without it. My free medication now costs me $600.00. I am 100% disabled and live on VA compensation that Obama cut back this year. Thank you Jesus that God is my provider. I have been back to the same clinic 10 times and have to go again because they still have not gotten my CPAP machine to me in working order. I drive 1 and 1/2 hours in heavy traffic-ugh! Just so ya know, everytrhing ya hear IS as bad as you hear!
Great news story but DAMN all the commercials? Give me a break!
Doctors anymore in general just pump em in n out on meds dont really do anything else but collect co-fees and insurance payments. Havent met one yet who really cares about real well being. Too swamped with patients and making $
The VA bites .
Americans are mired in “Social complacency” thus the short memories! this will be the main reason for the end of America as we knew it.
that is totally wrong
to late now whats wrong with these doctors these days what a shame
If you are tired of this Vote Republican.
SORRY BASTARDS AT VA!!!!!
OBAMA/LIBERALS USE OUR SHORT MEMORY SPAN TO CONTINUE THEIR EVIL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!