Update: Nov. 16, 2016: While she does not represent the veteran whose situation is described by Bobby below, the office of Kyrsten Sinema responded to provide help. Her office provided the following escalation steps for any veteran who has contacted his or her own congressperson and yet the issue remained unresolved:
1)Contact the House Committee of Veteran’s Affairs: https://veterans.house.gov/contact
2) File an online complaint at the Office of the Inspector General. http://www.daig.pentagon.mil/readytofile.aspx
Thanks Rep. Sinema!
Below is the original guest post from Bobby Wightman-Cervantes, descendent of the Wightman’s portrayed in Rekindled.
Please share this post on your favorite media. Please use the information in this post to contact your congressman, or any other organization that may be able to help. Please support initiatives to allow private health care paid by the Veteran’s Administration.
My brother Clinton’s $400,000 is being stolen by lawyers and judges, while he dies in a cesspool of a nursing home being denied all medical care. The Texas Observer has done two articles and the abuses by the judges and lawyers against our seniors and our Republican governor refuses to act. Who by the way by law oversees the guardianship program. he has assigned three investigators to investigate what has been found to be millions in stolen money. It is not just the money. Clinton has $400,000, and 100% medical coverage from TRICARE. He did two tours in Vietnam. He retired Army. You cannot communicate with Congress. Everything is passed on to people who do nothing to help. Please help me to make this go viral. We either stand with our veterans or do not. Stop posting the real heroes are veterans if you are not willing to stand on the front lines to defend them against the inept VA and corrupt legal system which steals their money and leaves them to die in cesspool nursing homes when they have money for top notch nursing homes.
VETERAN’S DAY FEELS LIKE ANOTHER PHONY HOLIDAY TO BENEFIT OUR POLITICIANS WHILE OUR VETERANS ARE LEFT HOMELESS AND WITHOUT PROPER MEDICAL CARE
If you care for our Veterans you will call your Congressman to complain. For this case, that would be Congressman Vela, whose Veteran’s Day post feels especially hypocritical. When I went to him he defended his staff for allowing the VA liaison to claim the law required I transport my brother 9 hours for a physical to Harlingen and then 9 hours back to his nursing home. Congressman Vela shakes like a man facing the firing squad when he has to face the bureaucratic process. If in the process our veterans suffer, so be it is Congressman Vela’s response. The truth I got from General Counsel from the VA. The VA had to send a doctor to my brother’s nursing home. Even that did not happen because the doctor hired by the VA refuses to go to nursing homes because they obstruct the process. So he remains without the physical. The nursing home lawyer called me to tell me they will never allow him to see his neurologist. He is two years behind on his neurological exam for lesions on the brain and the nursing home is allowed to block his appointment. The state of Texas investigated and found there is no abuse when a nursing home prevents a patient from seeing their doctor. Texas is either corrupt or brain-dead.
I have been at the VA when mentally ill patients are escorted out by security because they cannot get care. The VA has no time for the mentally ill patients most in need. So they have their police escort them out, and if they resist they are arrested. I cannot wait until I am 65 and can pay for medicare. Right now Part A-F is about $550 a month. I will certainly pay for it rather than to ever have to go back to the VA.
My brother remains without treatment. I spoke to him a few weeks ago to tell him his daughter has stage three breast cancer. He said not his problem. That is not my brother. They refuse to allow him to see anyone for Alzheimer’s or dementia. They will not allow him to see his neurologist to see the damage the brain lesions are doing. He got real mad I have not been to visit, but I have an email threatening me if I go near him. His court appointed lawyer billing down his estate made it clear, the family is not to talk with him or visit him. I explained it to my brother and he lost it. His court appointed lawyer refuses to get him medical care. He cannot even get a flu shot. The state of Texas investigated and found no abuse.
Two years ago the VA told me they were working on the paperwork to appoint me to manage his affairs. When I call for a status I am told it is still being worked on. How is that possible?
I REFUSE TO HELP THE POLITICIANS TO LIE TO THE PEOPLE AND VETERANS TO GET VOTES. IF YOU CARE ABOUT OUR VETERANS CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND TELL HIM/HER TAKE ACTION TO SERVE OUR VETERANS
Originally published on Bobby’s Facebook. Let Bobby know of any action you’ve taken via Facebook or at bobbywc58@yahoo.com.
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