Arizona Whistleblowing Case Study

It requires a deep imagination to put a body back together when there are only bits and pieces are left. The V.A. is not just about the physical well-being, but the mental well-being of the military personnel. As Phillip Longhorn has made his argument for keeping the V.A. intact, for a multitude of reasons, the mental health, the general care for veterans and extreme increase in money paid to private outfits. Given the fact that PTSD is now a well-known illness, mental health is half the battle of a veteran. Longhorn stated the V.A. had an over 30% superior rating, compared to any private mental health facility. When the V.A. provides exceptional treatment, it seems silly to send veterans to a less qualified facility. Especially when the therapists and doctors cater to PTSD. As we move to the general health of a veteran, the RAND study, gave a close look at the unique capabilities of the V.A. has to offer, and the rating of the care taken of the patients. In just about every aspect, wellness, eyes, diabetes out performs independent and private outfits. If the V.A. were to privatized, it would dismantle a medical relationship that lasts almost a life time. But it would also cause different havoc like sky rocketing costs to the V.A. that

Over the last decade or so we have seen our country fail our Veterans on so many different levels. The U.S. Governments treatment of our Veterans has come under fire because so many of our Veterans are not being adequately taken care of. Some would say this is a mere oversight in our government, but to me it is a lack of ethics. Menzel defines “Ethics as values and principles that guide right and wrong behavior.” When we look at the landscape of our Government beginning with the Executive office we see a lack of leadership in my opinion. The President of the United States should be the biggest advocate for our Veterans. Unfortunately, we see decisions that are made based on political motives instead of what’s right for the men and women who have sacrificed their lives for the

An assortment of complex issues has weakened the VA’s ability to deliver on its promise “to care for him who shall have borne the battle” (VA, 2015).

They claimed Iraq and Afghanistan veteran polls have been taken, it shows that whatever improvements and actions being were taken were not enough. Fifty-nine percent of the people rated the job the government was doing to help was good, while fifty-six percent rated it as them doing poorly. In an article by CNN news nineteen veterans have died because of delays for medical treatments from the Veterans Affair. Those nineteen veterans were only a small proportion of that group. A number of eight-two veterans who have died because of delays for medical treatments like colonoscopies or endoscopies. Some people like my father (Jason McLain), who is a retired veteran, believes that some doctors have their own personal bias toward veterans. Jason McLain stated, “When I go to the VA they do not help me as soon as I need their help. Although when I go to any other civilian doctor’s office they help me right away with any of their help”. A website by the name of Free Grants Community stated that success and failures of the Departments of Veterans Affair are frequently the subjects of political promises and debates. There are many places that can help with benefits or homelessness, simply anything veteran(active/retired) need. A six-year veteran stated that there are places to help but emphasizes that you have to pursue yourself. After you are done with the military to go back to school and to keep getting educated. Besides the fact the regular ordinary citizens complain that veterans are not getting enough help, there have been complaints against all employers for discrimination has blames the economic crisis and ballooning deficits for the inability to provide for more

The VA System needs a complete over all we are doing a terrible disservices to our veteran’s.

The veteran population is a highly diverse and prominent population group within the United States. Over time their specific healthcare needs have been at the forefront of political discussion and legislation. Due to their disparities of healthcare that continue to grow and change overtime, recent reforms have been set in place to continue to provide healthcare to veterans. This paper will discuss a brief summary of recent reforms of the Veteran Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (H.R. 3230) and the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act of 2014 (Clay Hunt SAV Act). From this summary it will then be appropriated how these reforms adhere to the social justice framework presented by John Rawls in the Rawlsian “Justice as Fairness” liberal theory and promote the path towards social justice by providing ways for veterans to overcome their healthcare disparities. This paper aims to examine how these healthcare reforms continue to serve veterans in having equal access and fair quality of healthcare within their population group and as a product of societal obligation to provide care for them.

These incidents are not isolated. Federal funding for Veteran's Affairs has been under pressure for years. There was talk during the election campaigning that Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan's budget cut the VA budget a further 24%, though the actual GOP proposed budget endorsed by Governor Romney did not contain such cuts. There has been no proposal recently, however, that would increase VA funding. This comes despite the fact that the number of veterans in the United States has ballooned in the past decade as a consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fact that there is greater awareness of PTSD and other veteran-specific conditions now than there has been in the past.

One of the most serious problems facing all veterans today is the lack of proper healthcare. Soldiers, sailors and airmen are leaving active duty without having proper healthcare to cover their physical or mental injuries. The department responsible for veteran’s healthcare is the Department of Veterans Affairs. (VA) According to The department of Veterans Affairs website, “The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors. The benefits provided include disability compensation, pension, education, home loans, life insurance, vocational rehabilitation, survivors’ benefits, medical benefits and burial benefits. It is administered by the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.” The VA, who was formerly called the Veterans Administration, was established 21 July 1930, to consolidate and coordinate government activities affecting war veterans. The VA encompassed the functions of the former U.S. Veterans ' Bureau, the Bureau of Pensions of the Interior Department and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. On 25 October 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation creating a new federal Cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs to replace the Veterans Administration effective 15 March 1989 (V.A.)

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) has been tasked with providing support and benefits to Veterans after they have completed their service. However, many Veterans are reporting difficulty accessing care due to systematic barriers within the VA’s Veterans Health Administration (Oliver, 2007). Complex eligibility requirements, long wait lists and lack of providers are a few of the issues Veterans are faced with when trying to access health and mental health care. Additionally, studies indicate that veterans, predominantly those from the recent wars in Iran and Iraq, have disproportionately high amounts of mental illness (Shim & Rust, 2013). These same veterans are experiencing difficulty accessing mental health care due to issues around a backlog of healthcare eligibility applications and a shortage of mental health providers through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which operates the Nation’s largest, integrated health care delivery system (APA, 2014). In 2014, at the request of the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) evaluated the merit of the allegations of mismanagement at the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) and the Health Eligibility Center (HEC).

The issue of veterans’ health care has dominated public discourse for many years, with various statistics

In today’s society, veterans health care system is troubling to those aware of the problem in the outside world. Veterans are people that have sacrificed so much for the United States, yet receive very little in regards to their health and well-being, which poses a great problem. The U.S Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is very vocal about the lack of health care options for veterans and is actively trying to make reforms and provide solutions to these problems. The Department of Veterans Affairs "strives to ensure that you have access to all of your needed services wherever you receive your VA health care” (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2016). They also claim that our veterans deserve the best care possible (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2016). While all seems well, there are still a large percentage of veterans that get denied veteran services. The goal of this study is to pinpoint the disparities among veteran health care, shine a light on the issues to increase awareness within the community, and then attempt to create solutions for these problems. This can

This is like a bomb waiting to go off: Family of veterans have to live with fear, hoping that their love one would recuperate, be happy, or simply a civilian again. The Veterans Affairs Department (VA) should put a better effort to better assist veterans, and their family with a better plan to reduce this preventable death. Many veterans find it difficult to admit, control, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), let alone reaching for help; when they do so, they are considered just another number at the VA. At any moment, a veteran?s sacrifice for this country should end

Current funding for veteran healthcare care is low and insufficient because of the large number of veterans, who are being discharged from the military as the country transitions to a democratic President. According to Dr. Rachel Nardin in her article about veteran healthcare, “Soldiers get excellent acute care when injured on active duty, but as revelations of poor conditions for soldiers receiving ongoing outpatient care at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center highlighted, service members often have trouble getting the care they need once active duty ends” (Nardin 1)

The VA has been warned before about their lack of concern toward information security of our personal data, but it went unheard, since nothing serious had happen before, that we knew of. As with all breaches, many go unreported, and someone, somewhere along the lines knew about it, but lets it slide until it is too late, and somebody personal information stolen.

In the United States, soldiers are currently returning home from war broken and scarred. While some physical wounds are clearly visible others are often hidden/invisible to the naked eye, but men and women proudly wear these wounds as a badge of courage and honor for protecting our nation. These men and women come home rightfully expecting help, assistance and care and get hit with the reality of poor care from the Veteran Health Administration and Department of Defense.