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The recent headlines about the
Walter Reed Hospital scandal
has done a lot to raise public
awareness on the very way in
which commander incompetence
and beancounter terrorists
overpower the interests of
federal medical patients who
are inside the Dept. of Defense
system. As a secondary subject,
and Oh By The Way, the VA
was also highlighted in the scandal
but only to the erroneous limits
(once again) of facilities and
hospital care. Ya gotta wonder
why they always draw the line
at that same quitting point
time and time again in the
news media.

There does not seem to be a
single news reporter in the
United States who is capable
of making the corruption and
abuses of the VA disability
system [ i.e. the VA Comp & Pen
system ] front and center into
a headline of it's very own.
So close, but yet so far away
as this missed-target continues
to be ignored by headline news.
Go figure.

To that end, advocates should
start elevating this matter into
the national debate because almost
nothing coming out of Congress
is ever on target or even comes
close to fixing the many layers
of the VA problems which Veterans
are forced to sit through year
after year.

The first thing we all have to
get on the same page with is
the idea that the VA disability
system is heavily rooted in
the crime scheme theories of
patient exploitation.
Out of that patient exploitation,
comes the premature deaths of
sicker Veterans as well as
preventable suicides from those
who are unable to withstand the
emotional pressures which comes
with the moment of realization
they are suddenly finding themselves
caught up in a federal agencyh
fraud scheme with no hope of a
rescue.

Patient abuse, patient neglect,
and patient exploitation are
3 separate terms of law. The
Walter Reed scandal was an
exercise in patient neglect.
Advocats do have to start
learning these 3 terms of law
and using them in our national
VA disability debate.

The Maryland state Attorney
General's office has published
an academic paper sorting out
the distinctions between all
3 terms of law at:
http://www.oag.state.md.us/Healthpol/alzchap8.pdf

They are summarized as follows:

patient abuse:
physical injury to a patient as a
result of cruel or inhumane treatment.
[sure sounds like the VA disability
system to ME, how about you?]

patient neglect
willful deprivation of adequate
food, clothing, medical treatment,
shelter or supervision.

patient exploitation
misuse of patients funds, property,
or person. [ yeah baby, the VA's
name is all over this one!]

It has been a widely known VA
practice to put some patient
front and center who barely
has a brain in his head and
functions much like a wind-up
toy inside of a hospital
environment, and to have that
very guy be the national
Icon and "verifier" of how
just wonderful the VA system
really is. We have all seen
it and how many of us have
squirmed in our chairs when
we did?

In the meantime, the other
25 million Veterans and patients
never receive equal airtime
to state the other side of that
thought, in the many VA propaganda
magazines and website pages
they put out which invokes our
names. So it is here we can
find a "misuse of person" in
the VA patient exploitation
system.

The VA disability system is a
stacked crime syndicate which
is heavily orchestrated to
deny or interrupt the proper
military Comp & Pen benefits
which are due to Veterans as
a promised contractual feature
of their military service,
combat or not.

And once we put that definition
into slow motion under a microscope,
it becomes clearer that the test
of this truth has been met.

Falsification of VA ruling
documents in Veterans disability
claims takes on a wide range
of systemmic applications. One
of the most common is for
incompetent and malpracticed
VA or DOD physicians to portray
on paper that a Veteran with
a valid physical injury is
actually a psychiatric case.

Once that falsification is set
into motion, may the Veteran
be dammed if he or she then
later on requires surgery for
their psychiatric problem.
It is here that VA ruling
document falsification really
kicks into WARP mode to further
hide and conceal the fact they
had falsified the case into
a psychiatric case when it
was a physical medicine case
all along. And by reason of the
mere numbers of them across the
agency itself verses the oneness
of a single Veteran medical patient,
it's usually the Veteran who
comes out the loser and is
overpowered by the total weight
of the system. The falsifications
are not only left in place, but
then overwritten by some 20 other
brand new other falsifications
which are brought in to hide and
confuse the original truths of
the Veterans situation.

Another popular adjudicator
falsification is to simply
bungle and rewrite the patient's
entire life story to a point
of where the adjudicators are
no longer even talking about
a living person anymore. We
like to call this the "identity
theft" approach. Just make up
your very own new Veteran
from La La Land and send it
to the guys address who made
out his disability application.
Clever, don't ya think??

Or how about just not processing
the case for some 3 to 4 years,
and then when they do, by
that time the Veterans medical
condition has changed for the
worst and now what the VA
has ruled does not even apply
to the new deteriorations of
the Veterans health. Such
as a case where a Veteran is
first denied a claim for a
cancer biopsy which shows
to be benign, and now in the
3 year delay of the VA to
provide the ruling, now the
Veteran has a change into
full blown cancer. What's up
with THAT ??

And when all else fails, the
VA adjudicators can just sit
around all day and use the
new and material evidence rule
to block the Veterans every demand
for a correction in his or her
C-File papers, until the Veteran
just plain eventually dies of
their medical condition or otherwise
checks out voluntarily from the
strains of corruption and incompetence
which is victimizing them.

Or how about falsification of rulings
or just plain carte blanche denials
of rulings from the hands of those
who are just plain illiterate and dumb
and holding the VA adjudicators
title?? Claims denied by reason of
adjudicator-dumb is not a rare
incident out here for sure. But
you will also notice, that
adjudicator-dumb never but Never
falls in the favor of Veterans.
Did ya notice that??

And here is another all time
VA favorite: first grant the
Veteran a 100% disability rating,
then wait 5 years, then take
it away from him and insist he
pay it all back! That's a VA
oldie but goodie that Veterans
have lived with since the 1980's.

The entire VA disability system
has a chronic and recurring goal,
year in and year out, of depriving
medical patients whatever they
can for that particular year,
whether it's adequate shelter
or adequate medical care, or
adequate supervision. You name
it, the VA will threaten to take
it and probably murders a sizeable
number of medical patients just
through the deluge of ongoing
cutoff threats.
[patient neglect].

And they have another goal to misuse
the Veterans as patients for VA
publishing propaganda purposes, and
to either prevent or take away
their funds or disability incomes,
or threaten to illegally seize their
properties such as their homes
under VA mortgages just because
the mood strikes them for that
particular day.
[patient exploitation]

And when all else fails, the
VA will just create a situation
inside the VA Hospitals by
hook or by crook, to find
a way to aggravate the mental
strain side of a Veterans
life until such time that
he or she has a stroke and
dies. Murder by bureacracy and
deliberately inflicted worry.
[ patient abuse ]

Patient exploitation is illegal
in most all states, while in
some states, the laws are sometimes
buried only in nursing home laws
instead of general hospital and
public health laws. The
federal government does not
appear to have an anti-exploitation
law.

The VA does have a hospital
Patient Rights under
38 CFR 17.33 which we have
sought to revise and make
more specific and complete.
For now it makes very little
distinctions across the 3 terms
of law, nor does it go far enough
to extend to verified disabled
outpatients who are trapped
for entire lifetimes on perpetual
appeals one after another as
they grow straight into their
senior years as I have myself.

Today's Veterans Advocates really
do have to bump up their games
on the national VA disability
debate now, and to start using
the much more applicable and
stronger terms of malpractice,
crime scheme, human torture,
patient abuse, patient neglect,
and patient exploitation.

The way that both Congress and
the VA agency have been skating
past public scrutiny on this
whole subject has been to simply
"rephrase" everything into much
more acceptable polite speech.
Don't let them do it anymore.

It's kinda like right up there
with renaming a "sick bastard
who wants to have sex with little
children" into the name "pedophile".
The name pedophile is much more
kinder and polite, and suggests
to the listener "what's all the fuss
about" when using it in debating
language. When the conversation is
all done, the debate is numb with
politeness and the sense of crisis
and emergency is somehow lost in
all the politeness. If each time they
were forced to say the words "sick
bastard who wants to have sex with
children", then those debates would
be over with and outta here in
a New York Minute !! Eek Eek

So don't let them rephrase
anything on this VA disability
subject for you. Start forcing
the words into their mouths
"Oh ya mean the VA disability
system who inflicts patient
abuse and neglect and exploitation
on the sick Veterans???"

Once the Advocates start forcing
the uglier side of language into
this totally cruel and inhumane
subject, just stand back and watch
how fast they can all run away from
TV cameras and propaganda website
releases. That will be the moment
when the legislative Bills become
stunningly effective.

Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Razz Razz Eek Eek


Sue Frasier, VEV 1970
Army Signal Corps
national activist/protester
staff Blogger, VFJ


 
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