How do you screw up improving the VA health care system – a domestic issue with virtually universal support on both sides of the aisle?
I don\’t have an answer to that question. But read this excerpt from Friday\’s editorial at Investors Business Daily (but nowhere else in mainstream media that I can find) and see how bad the failure is:
The day Obama signed (a $16.3 billion dollar bill to fix the VA hospital system) into law, he talked about how his administration was “moving ahead with urgent reforms,” and “instituting a critical culture of accountability” at the VA.
He said that the administration was getting 215,000 vets off wait lists, the funding bill would “give the VA more of the resources that it needs” and the new law would let vets who couldn\’t get timely care through the VA “get the care they need someplace else.”
Problem solved, right?
Not even close. Obama – and the mainstream press – may have moved on, but the VA that he promised to fix is as bad as ever.
An investigation by the Associated Press published this week found that “the number of patients facing long waits at VA facilities has not dropped at all.” Not. At. All.
It found that the number of vets waiting between 30 and 60 days hasn\’t changed and that the number waiting more than 90 days to get an appointment “has nearly doubled.”
Do yourself a favor and use IBD\’s link to the Associated Press article. Read it and do two things:
1) marvel at how meaningless this was to Obama & Co. once mainstream media “moved on” and
2) marvel at how meaningless it this was to the mainstream media, which did move on, apparently not giving a damn about results, just happy to put a seemingly happy ending to the issue on behalf of Barack Obama.
In short, another massive Obama fail and another example of how far mainstream media will go to cover for his failures.
Just like they have always done with Republican Presidents. Right?
Uh….right?
