Veterans Affairs Essay

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Jesus Patino
Dr. Luciano
English 1301-5011
11 November 2014
Veterans’ Affairs
Earlier this year on January 30, 2014 at least 20 veterans died due to VA hospital delays or even denies. Our veterans deserve better than this they deserve to be treated properly and timely not to suffer in their home country after fighting overseas. According to Scott Bronstein a veteran named Coates was delayed a colonoscopy for a year since he reported it to his doctors, this 44 year old happened to have a cancerous tumor the size of a baseball that is now life threatening and causes him to go in for chemotherapy treatments (Bronstein, Scott).
Furthermore, our veterans don’t deserve to be treated worse than the terrorists at Gitmo. For example, according to J.D. Gordon Gitmo’s patient to health care provider ratio is drastically better than ours. While America has a ratio of 35-1, Gitmo has a ratio of 1.5-1 (Gordon, J.D.). This is shocking and sad. I cannot bear to read the words on the screen without being dumbfounded. After all that our troops have sacrificed, just to suffer in their homes.
In conclusion, I have found that the lack of accountability is the issue and that bothers me, because there are people in this world that to do there job right, and there are people that do not care about their job. The fact that the accountability of these individuals is an issue, especially when concerning our troops, is really sad when thought about. The main concern here is our troops, our veterans,

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