"Instead of actually serving veterans, the V.A. and the Obama administration have callously decided to prolong the proceedings."
At the core of the Ninth Circuit's opinion was the outrageous number of suicides among veterans. "On an average day, 18 veterans of our nation's armed forces take their own lives. Of those, roughly one quarter are enrolled with the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system. Among all veterans enrolled in the V.A. system, an additional 1000 attempt suicide each month. Although the V.A. is obligated to provide veterans mental health services, many veterans with depression or post traumatic stress disorder are forced to wait weeks for mental health referrals and are given no opportunity to request or demonstrate their need for expedited care." The court stated,
"The V.A.'s unchecked incompetence has gone on long enough. No more veterans should be compelled to agonize or perish while the government fails to perform its obligations."
This is another bitter disappointment from our administration that does not even have a discernable political advantage. Perhaps the First Lady, who along with Jill Biden created "Joining Forces" to encourage Americans to take action to serve our military families should have a talk with her husband. Because no military family will thrive or even function when a parent, sibling, or child is suffering from war's trauma and is unable to obtain meaningful mental health care.
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Amen to this post. The average non-military person does not get it. Therefore, you can thank those in charge of our country because they too "do not get it". Having your commander-in-chief with absolutely no military background or understanding of the military and a politically driven VA system, is one of the many reasons this type of thing is happening. Because our troops served a minimum of one year in a combat zone in Vietnam, supposedly the newer troops were going to be treated as the WW2 troops rotating out every 6 months. Just another lie and who suffers? The troops and their families.
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