Four or five years ago when several of we horrible racist-sexist-bigot-homophobes types were busy trying to get our elected representatives to reject ObamaCare, one resolute couple showed up at nearly every protest in southeast Michigan with a unique display in tow. ➡
Their grinning pal in his wheel chair never made a sound – but his message was loud and clear: “people are gonna die waiting for government healthcare.”
 
Funny at the time. Now, not so much.

In 2010, the dysfunctional nationalized health systems of our Canadian neighbors and their cousins in the UK, were already sufficient proof that any attempt by Central Planning/Big Government to co-opt healthcare was never going to work. Long lines, incompetence – and yes, eventually – death panels, were simply unavoidable.
 
And now sadly, we have our own evidence here in the U.S. at the Veterans Administration. As Investors Business Daily reported last week ~

Government-run VA health clinics have been caught falsifying records to hide obscenely long and sometimes deadly delays in treating veterans […]
 
Colorado: While delays for many of the 6,300 veterans treated at the clinic stretched out for months, clerks there were told to falsify dates so it appeared that everyone was being seen in a timely fashion. Those who didn’t play along ended up on a “bad boy list,” according to USA Today, which obtained a copy of the report […]
 
Arizona: (It’s been reported that) 23 veterans relying on the VA died due to delayed cancer screenings. At least 40 others died waiting for appointments at a VA system in Phoenix. A retired VA doctor said many were on a “secret waiting list” designed to hide treatment delays.

 
Similar allegations have emerged in at least two other states ~

It’s pouring rain in the Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare scandal, with a fifth location now accused of gaming the system to conceal unacceptable wait times. Allegations and whistleblowers have emerged in Arizona, Colorado, and at two Texas facilities. Now add Wyoming to the list.

Congress is currently running another production of Kabuki Theater, feigning outrage over the VA’s criminal negligence (Some lawmakers call for heads to roll). But once the furor dies down, the story will disappear (just like every other O’Ministration scandal) as the mainstream media ignores it, and the sheeple go back to “WWE Raw,” reality-TV and “Game of Thrones.”
 

As long as our fellow Americans are content to sit on the couch – even as military veterans are left to die from neglect at the hands of their own government – there will be no one to thwart the death panels when the rest of us are forced to go before them and beg for our own lives.
 

 Back in ’09 and ’10, we evil Tea Partiers tried in vain to communicate the inevitable effects of socialized medicine. But believe me, when it comes to matters of life and death, there’s no satisfaction at all in “told ya so.”
 
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Related:
NBC Finally Covers Veterans Health Care Scandal, Still Ignores Obama ~ The Praetorian Guard is ever vigilant.
 
Obama acts like he doesn’t care about growing Veterans Affairs scandal ~ Ya think?

Judging by the throngs of veterans, families and whistleblowers who keep courageously stepping forward, VA’s delays in care problem is growing in size and scope by the day. That’s why I am asking for President Obama’s personal involvement in helping fix this crisis. For nearly a year, we have been pleading with top Department of Veterans Affairs leaders and the president to take immediate steps to stop the growing pattern of preventable veteran deaths and hold accountable any and all VA employees who have allowed patients to slip through the cracks. In response, we’ve received disturbing silence from the White House and one excuse after another from VA. Right now, President Obama is faced with a stark choice: take immediate action to help us end the culture of complacency that is engulfing the Veterans Health Administration and compromising patient safety, or explain to the American people and America’s veterans why we should tolerate the status quo.
~ House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller R-FL ~ May 13, 2014

 
VA Health Scandals Foreshadow Life Under ObamaCare ~ Here or abroad, socialized medicine is hazardous to everyone’s health ~

As ObamaCare’s tentacles reach further into the nation’s health care system, so too will come schemes to ration care, along with the inevitable political pressure to cover it all up.