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UNBELIEVABLE: This Move By Veterans Affairs Might Be The Most Disturbing One Yet...Wow
Colleen Conley March 1, 2016 at 6:56am
Many have criticized the Obama administration for its seeming disregard of serious issues facing the men and women who have served in our armed forces. Deplorable conditions in VA hospitals, poor management and unreasonable wait times may have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of veterans, while poor access to mental health facilities has left many homeless. All the while, the president jumps through hoops to ensure that illegal aliens and refugees are provided with benefits they never earned.
Now, Daily Caller has reported that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials are outsourcing healthcare paperwork for American veterans to processors half a world away — in the Philippines. Why? Because it’s a whole lot cheaper to do so.
The Manila VA office was opened after World War II, in which many Filipinos fought against Japan alongside the United States military. The Philippines was a U.S. territory until 1946; thus it made sense to have a veterans affairs office in the country to care for those vets. Today, the country has its own government agency to care for the few vets there who are still alive.
But the far-flung U.S. outpost remains open to process paperwork for U.S. vets seeking healthcare, primarily due to the low cost and efficiency of its labor force as compared to offices and workers in America. The minimum wage in the Philippines is one dollar a day, and there are no unions with which the government has to deal in collective bargaining or face strikes.
Rima Nelson, the office’s director, explained that 90 of the workers are Filipino, adding:
“We are efficient and the quality of the work is very good. We have a very dedicated staff who enjoy serving veterans, and our numbers show that we have high quality work when they do quality comparisons.”
In addition to benefits claims processing, the office has a medical clinic that provides only outpatient care and only for service-connected disabilities for the few remaining WWII survivors.
Congress makes the determination to keep the office open on a year-to-year basis, with cost containment being the primary driver of its continued operations as the only foreign outpost for processing WWII veterans’ claims. But as the number of military personnel who fought in the war dwindles — the average age of a WWII vet is now 93-years-old — the savings is now in question.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office wrote: “VA has not estimated the costs or savings that would occur if the outpatient clinic were closed and/or some of its health services were administered from the U.S., such as through the Foreign Medical Program.”
Since that statement five years ago, many more of our greatest generation have passed on, undoubtedly with some waiting for care they deserved, but never received.
Colleen Conley March 1, 2016 at 6:56am
Many have criticized the Obama administration for its seeming disregard of serious issues facing the men and women who have served in our armed forces. Deplorable conditions in VA hospitals, poor management and unreasonable wait times may have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of veterans, while poor access to mental health facilities has left many homeless. All the while, the president jumps through hoops to ensure that illegal aliens and refugees are provided with benefits they never earned.
Now, Daily Caller has reported that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials are outsourcing healthcare paperwork for American veterans to processors half a world away — in the Philippines. Why? Because it’s a whole lot cheaper to do so.
The Manila VA office was opened after World War II, in which many Filipinos fought against Japan alongside the United States military. The Philippines was a U.S. territory until 1946; thus it made sense to have a veterans affairs office in the country to care for those vets. Today, the country has its own government agency to care for the few vets there who are still alive.
But the far-flung U.S. outpost remains open to process paperwork for U.S. vets seeking healthcare, primarily due to the low cost and efficiency of its labor force as compared to offices and workers in America. The minimum wage in the Philippines is one dollar a day, and there are no unions with which the government has to deal in collective bargaining or face strikes.
Rima Nelson, the office’s director, explained that 90 of the workers are Filipino, adding:
“We are efficient and the quality of the work is very good. We have a very dedicated staff who enjoy serving veterans, and our numbers show that we have high quality work when they do quality comparisons.”
In addition to benefits claims processing, the office has a medical clinic that provides only outpatient care and only for service-connected disabilities for the few remaining WWII survivors.
Congress makes the determination to keep the office open on a year-to-year basis, with cost containment being the primary driver of its continued operations as the only foreign outpost for processing WWII veterans’ claims. But as the number of military personnel who fought in the war dwindles — the average age of a WWII vet is now 93-years-old — the savings is now in question.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office wrote: “VA has not estimated the costs or savings that would occur if the outpatient clinic were closed and/or some of its health services were administered from the U.S., such as through the Foreign Medical Program.”
Since that statement five years ago, many more of our greatest generation have passed on, undoubtedly with some waiting for care they deserved, but never received.
