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Hot Rod Revved Up	Sun May 11 06:27:16 About This Scandal? Veterans Affairs worker in Wyoming placed on leave in patient delay scandal - report Fri May 9, 2014 10:22pm EDT (Reuters) - A Veterans Affairs healthcare coordinator was placed on administrative leave on Friday following revelations of an email sent last year outlining a scheme for masking delayed treatment of patients at a VA medical facility in Wyoming, CBS News reported. The report comes as Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki faces increased pressure to resign over charges his department allowed deadly delays in care at some of its hospitals for veterans. In a statement to CBS News, Shinseki said that he had been alerted on Friday to a June 2013 email from David Newman, a registered nurse at the VA Medical Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Shinseki asked his agency's office of the inspector general to look into the scheme described in the email, CBS reported. "I have also directed that the employee be removed immediately from patient care responsibilities and placed on administrative leave," Shinseki said, according to CBS News. "VA takes any allegations about patient care or employee misconduct very seriously," Shinseki's statement said. "If true, the behavior outlined in the email is unacceptable." CBS News posted to its website a copy of the email that appeared to be from Newman, who worked as a telehealth coordinator at the VA Medical Center in Cheyenne. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report, and Newman could not be located for contact. Representatives for the Department of Veterans Affairs did not immediately return calls or an email seeking comment on the report. The message outlined a technical scheme to ensure patients were recorded as obtaining appointments within a Department of Veterans Affairs' mandated 14-day window, regardless of when an appointment was first requested or how long the patient waited, CBS News reported. "Yes, it is gaming the system a bit," Newman wrote in the email, according to CBS. The message added that when workers exceed the 14-day measure "the front office gets very upset." The American Legion veterans group and Republican U.S. Senators Jerry Moran of Kansas and John Cornyn of Texas have called for Shinseki to step down following reports based on whistleblowers' claims that up to 40 veterans died while waiting for appointments or specialist care at the VA hospital in Phoenix. A congressional committee voted on Thursday to subpoena Shinseki, ordering him to produce all emails and written correspondence sent between April 9 and May 8 related to the disappearance or destruction of a secret patient wait list at the Phoenix hospital. Shinseki has rejected calls for his resignation. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by David Gregorio) http://www...-wyoming-idUSKBN0DQ01I20140510
patom Member	Sun May 11 08:25:00 I'm outraged. Why isn't Congress fully funding the VA and all their hospitals???? Oh, that's right, they have more important fish to fry. Benghazi!!!!!
Hot Rod Revved Up	Sun May 11 08:34:25 We can't blame Obama's military penury for this one. "President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, which was unveiled Tuesday, includes $163.9 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs — a $10.1 billion increase over current funding levels, officials said." This is a systemic problem of corruption that and just plain not caring that is infusing our government.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Sun May 11 09:12:23 CNN has been covering it for awhile, guess Fox was too busy with Benghazi
yankeessuck123 Member	Sun May 11 09:44:49 Because you're hogging all the outrage.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Sun May 11 14:51:33 tw, FOX has been covering it. I have been waiting for you to post something about it. Obviously yankeessuck123 cares nothing for the veterans. All he cares about is politics just like Obama.
pillz Member	Sun May 11 14:58:23 How about this one? Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards AP / Bob Moen // May 9, 2014 (CHEYENNE, Wyo.) — Wyoming, the nation’s top coal-producing state, is the first to reject new K-12 science standards proposed by national education groups mainly because of global warming components. The Wyoming Board of Education decided recently that the Next Generation Science Standards need more review after questions were raised about the treatment of man-made global warming. Board President Ron Micheli said the review will look into whether “we can’t get some standards that are Wyoming standards and standards we all can be proud of.” Others see the decision as a blow to science education in Wyoming. “The science standards are acknowledged to be the best to prepare our kids for the future, and they are evidence based, peer reviewed, etc. Why would we want anything less for Wyoming?” Marguerite Herman, a proponent of the standards, said. Twelve states have adopted the standards since they were released in April 2013 with the goal of improving science education, and Wyoming is the first to reject them, Chad Colby, spokesman for Achieve, one of the organizations that helped write the standards." More @ http://tim...e-to-reject-science-standards/
pillz Member	Sun May 11 14:59:05 "Burning coal to generate electricity produces large amounts of CO2, which is considered a heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. Most scientists recognize that man-made CO2 emissions contribute to global warming. However, the degree to which it can be blamed for global warming is in dispute among some scientists. Gov. Matt Mead has called federal efforts to curtail greenhouse emissions a “war on coal” and has said that he’s skeptical about man-made climate change. This past winter, state lawmakers approved budget wording that sought to stop adoption of the standards. “Wyoming is certainly unique in having legislators and the governor making comments about perceived impacts on the fossil fuel industry of kids learning climate science, and unique in acting on that one objection to prohibit consideration of the package of standards, of which climate science is a small component,” said John Friedrich, a member of the national organization Climate Parents, which supports the standards."
Fred Felcher Member	Sun May 11 17:00:09 "President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, which was unveiled Tuesday, includes $163.9 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs — a $10.1 billion increase over current funding levels, officials said." Well, throwing money at it obviously doesn't work, so the only option is to shut it all down and throw those welfare queens out in the streets where they fucking belong. It is unpatriotic to leech off the taxpayers.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Sun May 11 17:12:09 Ork, did you let your buddies die on the battlefield too?
CrownRoyal Member	Sun May 11 17:15:27 The thing that pillz posted is fairly outrageous
Hot Rod Revved Up	Sun May 11 17:19:57 No, it is probably true, just off subject.
river of blood Member	Sun May 11 17:41:18 Bend over and I'll show you.
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