Joe Biden’s Department of Veterans Affairs processed 161,000 medical and dental claims for illegal aliens in 2022 while delaying service to US veterans who served their country.
Illegals should not be here, let alone get care from the VA.
Concerned Veterans for America
This may be one of the worst insults to veterans since the Phoenix VA scandal of 2014.
News recently broke that the Department of Veterans Affairs is managing community care and reimbursements for unauthorized migrants while actively keeping veterans from accessing timely, quality care.
According to reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts with the VA’s Financial Service Center to process reimbursement claims for unauthorized migrants needing specialty or emergency care from private providers after crossing the border.
This means the VA is spending a significant portion of time and manpower managing care for noncitizens who didn’t earn it.
But the problem is less about who is getting the care and more about who is not.
The VA has been standing in the way of veterans accessing timely, quality care in the community for years.
FOIA documents revealed VA administration and staff is misleading and discouraging veterans from using their community care options when the VA can’t meet wait time standards. These practices go against the intent and letter of the VA MISSION Act — a law passed to ensure veterans have access to care when and where they need it.
Fox News reported an internal video provided by a VA employee in which Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health Shereef Elnahal instructed staff to “reduce our reliance on community care” and “press the easy button less with community care.”
He added that “unless we maximize the number of veterans we see while also preventing burnout to the extent that we can, we cannot meet the mark for what veterans deserve.”
These statements highlight how disconnected VA staff is from what veterans actually want. The department sees itself as the authority on the care, knowing what is right and wrong for veterans. It’s putting itself in the position to make decisions based on its own self-interests.
But in reality, “meeting the mark” for veterans means putting veterans first and ensuring they have the care they need when they need it. That is what veterans deserve rather than a system that considers timely care an “easy button.”
As if “easy” were inherently bad in the first place. Community care makes it easier for many veterans to get the care they need when they need it. Unless you’re the VA and want to keep all veterans inside the VA at whatever cost, easier access to care is a good thing.
The Biden regime has a habit of pushing vets to the side in favor of his own agenda.
In NYC, homeless veterans were kicked out of hotels to make way for illegals.
That $100 billion he gifted to Zelensky could have been used to secure the border and help homeless vets.
By the way, he doesn’t let things like a ceremony for the servicemembers killed during his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal interfere with his compulsion to see if he’s running late for something more important.
This is a fucking insult. It’s a slap in the face to veterans and further proof that Biden’s regime will aid and abet illegal aliens, in spite of the law and the suffering of our own people.
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