Getting grilled by congress for wasting tax payer money and providing shoddy service to our veterans was too much for the Department of Veterans Affairs and they decided to pull a CYA maneuver that would impress Richard Nixon. Last Friday a memo became public that says reports such as the one reported by the Tribune-Review are not to be released to the public.
SAY WHAT? Who the hell do you people think you are? The people who work in the office of Veterans Affairs draw their paychecks at the sufferance of the American people & congress. By God, one way or another we will hold you accountable for your misdeeds.
One of the several pillars that hold up a stable republic such as the one we have in America is government transparency. We the people have full right to inspect all documents related to our tax expenditures other than those connected to national security. From where I am standing there is nothing in a quality review of a Department of Veterans Affairs medical care faculty that qualifies under any national security mandate. Reviewing the available data it seems these slimy worms have managed to get legal protection for these documents to prevent them from making it into the public arena. These laws must be abolished if we insist on government transparency in our great nation. Earlier this week two of our senators, Arlen Spector and Joseph Sestak asked some very pointed and evidently uncomfortable questions of the department of Veterans Affairs concerning why these documents are being withheld from congress and the public in general.
We here at Augmented Living insist that our elected employees past emergency legislation forcing the Department of Veterans Affairs to release any and all documents related to quality of care in all of their properties of operation. With all the coverage of healthcare reform this year, do you not believe that we the people deserve to know when a medical facilities’ who’s quality score would get any average hospital or doctor sued into oblivion and cost them their license? It should not take a year of debate to realize the VA is engaging in shady tactics to prevent their misconduct from coming to light.