GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE STORY OF THE DAY

And half the country wants government to run our healthcare. Government is useless, incompetent, inefficient, corrupt, uncaring, and evil. Other than that, they’re just great.

WWII Veteran From Philadelphia Denied Hearing Aids, How You Can Help

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — He risked his life to protect our country during World War II, and now, you can help make the everyday life a veteran living in Holmesburg a little easier.

A GoFundMe page was set up for Alexander Horanzy — the last remaining Pearl Harbor survivor in Philadelphia — with hopes of improving his hearing, something his granddaughter, Joyce Fiore, tells KYW Newsradio has been on the decline.

“He can’t talk on the phone much and the TV,” she said. “It’s very hard for him.”

She says they thought the Department of Veterans Affairs was going to give him hearing aids…

“So I drove him up there and they wouldn’t give them to him. They said his medical records were lost in a fire. They had them right there, so he was denied,” said Fiore.

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Horanzy says he wasn’t happy about this.

“I was so darn mad I couldn’t even talk,” he said. “My granddaughter was there with me, so we just walked out.”

So The Greatest Generations Foundation set up the donation page to get Horanzy those hearing aids.

“I’m excited, I think I’m more excited than him I told him, because he’s a hero,” says Fiore.

She says they’ve been trying to get her grandfather hearing aids for two years.

Horanzy turns 95-years-old this month.

 

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CCRider
CCRider

That’s because after your ‘service’ to the state they don’t give a shit about you anymore. Remember it’s all about money and power. Period. Look at the VA throughout the years and tell me a better explanation.

BTW Trump was constantly crowing about how he was going to do all these wonders for the vets and the VA system. Heard him crow lately?

hardscrabble farmer

The fact that the VA is a broke dick government organization is a given, was this some kind of surprise to these people?

His family knows he has hearing problems and they just let him walk around without hearing aids because they are depending on the government to give him a free set? Nice family you’ve got there old timer. And it isn’t as if he’s living in a barrel on the side of the road.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Alex Horanzy, a 94-year-old former U.S. Army private, understands what it means to sacrifice for your country – he enlisted in the Army at 17-years-old, fought to protect the country during WWII and is now one of the last surviving members of the attack on Pearl Harbor. To celebrate his service, Horanzy is recognized as the 2015 Dickies American Hero of the Year and awarded $25,000 for sharing his experience to inspire and motivate others.

He could have spent some of the 25K on hearing aids.

Found a good deal on devices here-

https://www.hihealthinnovations.com/page/financing?gclid=CIXDguS7rtMCFYmFswodW-cA7w

6 payments of $110 doesn’t seem prohibitive. I may save that link for myself.

I’m not sure if I fully understand how the VA works since I have never used them, but unless your disability is service related or you retired from active duty you are still responsible for your own health care no matter how old you are. If you are fortunate enough to live as long as this guy stuff is bound to fall apart on you, hearing included.

And for a guy who’s hard of hearing he did pretty well in this NPR interview from a year and a half ago. The interviewer seems to be speaking normally and he seems to hear her just fine-

https://storycorps.me/interviews/alex-horanzy/

Idaho Homesteader
Idaho Homesteader

Totally agree with you, HF. He or his family should have taken care of it. Because ultimately, you shouldn’t depend on the government for anything.

However, there are some more details at the gofundme link. Looks like another bureaucratic screw-up. Color me surprised ;/

TampaRed
TampaRed

Farmer said:
“I’m not sure if I fully understand how the VA works since I have never used them, but unless your disability is service related or you retired from active duty you are still responsible for your own health care no matter how old you are. If you are fortunate enough to live as long as this guy stuff is bound to fall apart on you, hearing included.”

Unfortunately that is no longer the way it is.My 85 yo dad prefers the VA to private health care and uses them almost exclusively,all free to him.Four years in the AirForce,’51-55.He was an airplane mechanic and when younger I heard him joke that the biggest danger he faced was the jostling he received from the crowds of servicemen when actresses and singing stars came thru the Tokyo airport.
I bet half the guys being treated are not lifers or service connected treatment.
But who is to call out our sainted vets?

Vic
Vic

From what I understand, the government is supposed to give them free health care, period. My mother’s friend is getting free health care at Ft. Gordon, Augusta, GA, at their medical facility, because her husband was in the military and in the Korean War. He (and his spouse) were both promised free health care (including prescriptions) apparently for life. He passed away but she’s still receiving her benefits and she’s in her ’80s.
If they were promised free health care, and it was part of the deal when they joined, then they should get it. In that case, this man should expect the .gov to pay for hearing aids.
I didn’t make the deal and don’t like it, but if it was promised, it was promised and they should get it.

If you ask me, they should do away with the V.A. hospitals, give the veterans Veteran Medicare and let them go to whatever facility or doctor accepts it, just like Medicare. Sell the V.A. buildings to others and have the staff find other jobs.

Zarathustra

From my experience, the only thing the VA was ever good at is a cheap drink. http://www.vmaeugene.com/

digitalpennmedia
digitalpennmedia

What I find most ironic in the left/prog/libs/rinos, hollywood specifically, cheering for govt to run everything is that in many many films and tv shows it is govt that is the buffoon. The govt or admin is always the oppressor or the joke… I have yet to see govt as the hero.
Healthcare is the perfect example as (much like many industries) the left is unionized and has a separate planned pension and healthcare that is covered by employers via the contract and so none of them have had to work with a govt run healthcare system… and the ones that have mumble under their breath about how terribly incompetent (lost paperwork, new paperwork, too much paperwork) and cheap (care) the govt system is. The hypocrisy that exists is never ending, but worse I dont think it is even realized by most.
I generally find it big b.s. that we have the “corporate security” boys in blue (police of incorporated entities) that have these absurd pensions and healthcare and willfully subvert individual liberties at the drop of a hat playing “hero”, but those folks that signed on to fight for liberty and defend the Constitution get left to the streets to scavenge for themselves.

musket
musket

The VA like the rest of the USG began hiring less than qualified personnel in great numbers after Bill Clinton was elected (race, culture, gender, envornmental). They got jobs for one reason…to vote democrat. It is impossible to terminate one for cause so few if ever try. Why do think the national capitol region now votes democrat……they hired them in because no one with a brain really wanted to live there. That is MacAulife is the governor of VA…….

4th Turner

Great comments CCR, HF, & DPM. By the way DPM I think you touched on something yet didn’t quite fully uncover it.

This was the GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE story of the day. I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Tell ya what —whenever you see in mainstream or even in alt-media reporting the word “INCOMPETENT” or a similarly worded phrase like “BUREAUCRATIC SCREW-UP” or something like “UNFORTUNATE MISQUE,” “MISTAKE,” etc, try this to undo the programming psy-op:

Change the above all-caps phrases with “COMMITTED ON PURPOSE.”

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Pardon me if I’m stupid, but doesn’t he qualify for Medicare? It pays up to $1,000 for hearing aids and yes you can buy a pair online for about $1,600. I did that a few years ago for my wife, Siemens Centra Active and they even come with a remote.

Mike Murray
Mike Murray

In fairness to the VA, I received shoulder surgery at the LaJolla, CA VA hospital (1978) and got great care. My complaint was the years it took to get the injury recognized, first in the Corps, and later with the VA… and the fact I had to intentionally dislocate my shoulder in front of a Navy Lt. Commander so he could “confirm” it. It took two Corpsmen to keep me off him.
It seriously pisses me off to hear the even worse horror stories since then. Bastards who should be behind bars get to retire or are promoted up and out of the job they screwed up.
Plenty of complaints, but as usual the bureaucracy has only excuses and promises.

Anonymous
Anonymous

imo, hearing aid options are way too expensive.
Sure, ‘invisible’ ones will be expensive but not everybody needs state-of-the-art technology.

Old European
Old European

Though I’m not a citizen of the US of A (but of Old Europe) me thinks that WWII hero would be better off if his relatives drove him the 500 miles or so over the northern border and get them hearing devices for a few hundred loonies ! (as in: if your local market just want to show their products @ a high price and have not the real will to sell them to you show them the m-finger and look for a cheaper offer !)
Which in turn means that the creativity of them relatives he is blessed with doesn’t seem to be too overboarding !
jmho

Maggie
Maggie

I know a LOT about the VA pension system, having taken on the role of “point of contact” for my WWII former POW (Japan) father. And, yes… there are abuses of the award system that are horrific.

For information purposes only? My father, because of his former POW status in WWII, was eligible for (and received after I finished all the paperwork) $7200 MONTHLY… that was 100% disability pension (around $3000) PLUS a $4000-plus monthly award for “aid and attendance” in his home.

If you think that as amazingly extravagant as I did when I discovered the awarded amount a month or so after I finished the paperwork? Then you don’t want to know about the “offered” (not used) home-modification grant of $68,900. Or the grant money set aside to purchase a wheel-chair accessible van (also not used).

Unbelievable? I still have the award letter and paperwork, should you not mind my blacking out his name and service number.

Was the money used for his care? Um, no. I was Point of Contact, NOT Power of Attorney. Unfortunately, I have siblings that grew quite enamored of that monthly stipend. I regretted signing the forms that applied for “any and all benefits available” without knowing just how much money the VA representatives could find for someone like my poor old dad. I also did not realize the VA would not follow up to make sure the money was spent on the actual Veteran.

Shit happens to us all and I unwittingly turned my father into a cash cow.

Now, the regular run-of-the-mill veteran? Good luck getting ANY kind of award without some sort of agency (DAV, VFW, or other veterans advocacy group) helping. I personally used Veterans Corner in Oklahoma. (Dale Graham’s original group of Vets helping Vets.)

llpoh
llpoh

I do not know what all the fuss is about. Give the guy one of these and send him home:

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Maggie
Maggie

llpoh, since I know the lengths the VA will go to in order to garner the publicity from helping a World War II VET… SALUTE!, I have to wonder what this guy’s family did to piss someone off.

Really. They (VA reps) would have done backwards flipflops to be able to proclaim they helped my former WWII POW father.

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