A VETERANS WELLNESS ALLIANCE REPORT 4.14.18

“A LOOK AT THE VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM FAILURES”

“WHY WE NOW NEED TO CHANGE FROM #END22 TO #END27”

BY @BluEyeViking  & @JoshuaMacias

President Trump has stood by us with the passage of the Veterans Accountability Act, additional VA funding, mandating internal VA reforms, and his recent Jan 9th 2018 EO “CARING FOR VETERANS IN TRANSITION” which mandated the VA to fix and restructure the Veteran Choice Program (VCP).  President Trump knows this has not been implemented as the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act (Choice) 2014 called for and intended as we were told it would be.

Yet past and current VA Leadership failed to act and execute. The recent VA OIG report exposed that then Under Secretary for Health Administration Dr Shulkin was negligent in implementing, per: “VA OIG AUDIT OF VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM (VCP) PAYMENTS” (Click HERE for reference).

The Veterans Wellness Alliance is exposing this egregious lack of VA leadership that we believe was intentional given there is unbelievably an on-going debate over not spending VA dollars on providing private care access.  Once again, this is another failure by our Government to mitigate Veteran Wellness Issues / Suicides as promised.   Taking the numbers of Veteran Suicides from 2014 till now in 2018 this compounded the problem from = #END22 now to #END27.

The VA Directorate of Health Administration and its Business Office of Purchased Care (CBOPC) share an apparent willingness to derail the Veteran Choice Program by not forcing Tri-West and HealthNet to do what they were contracted to do:  To pay VA VCP Providers who were contracted to treat referred Veterans seeking immediate care because the VA demonstrated it was incapable of providing Veteran healthcare and treatment in a timely manner.

This recent VA IG Report Foot Stomped that former Sec Shulkin was totally aware of VA Leadership authorization of fiduciary subcontracts to Tri-West and HealthNet to pay VA VCP Providers. VA Leadership knew that they were totally worthless as these contracts had no real VA oversight power to hold these subcontractors accountable to actually pay on time VA VCP Providers, hence causing Veteran Access To Quality Healthcare outside of the VA to be nothing more than a sham.  VA Leadership knew that limited healthcare access resulted due to causing VA Providers to stop offering their services for non-payment, the VA not being able to expand and secure more doctors and clinics due to this slow no-pay actions on the part of Tri-West and HealthNet.

The VA OIC Report documents this all, yet there has still been no VA Action taken to immediately reverse these VA Leadership and VA Contractual failures as President’s Jan 9th VA EO called to be addressed as outlined in the “ACTION PLAN” by June 9th 2018.

Register your disdain and call for change as instructed below so President Trump gets our united message loud and clear! The GOP Congress must listen if they want our  VETERAN VOTE in the upcoming Midterm Elections in November.

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/01/03/obama-veterans-choice-contractors-39-million/

NEXT REPORT : WHY #HEALTHNETGATE IS THE LATEST  VA SCANDAL OF THE DECADE!

#VWAlliance FROM #END22 TO #END27 IN 4 YEARS #HEALTHNETGATE