August 24, 2009
VA accidentally tells wrong Vets they have Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).

Posted at 5:59 pm, in: Health Care
Tags: Barack Obama, Cash for Clunkers, Obama Care, Veterans Affairs

Another example of why we don’t want government involved in our health care:

At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease.

One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error.

Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error for the mistake.

Letters dated Aug. 12 were intended to notify veterans who have Lou Gehrig’s disease of disability benefits available to them.

Calls to the VA were not immediately returned Monday.

Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, is a rapidly progressive disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

The government can’t handle military health care and you want to give them more power and responsibility? They’ve screwed up the Cash for Clunkers program, too. How is it that any American, when faced almost daily with another program or system the government screwed up, could have any faith in the government to handle health care? Do they think that something is going to be different? Because Obama’s in charge this time they’ll get it right? Wake up, people. Let Obamacare pass and they’ll accidentally tell you you’re dying and suggest you go kill yourself in order not to burden the system. It would be your civic duty, after all.

(H/T: Memeorandum)