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Seems the White House Medical Unit didn’t know who was eligible care for what care – or didn’t care.<\/p>\n
Under the Trump administration, the White House Medical Unit — a joint Defense Department team that provides medical care for the president, vice president and family members and also manages health services for certain high-level officials — sent ineligible staff members to military hospitals for specialty care and surgeries, the DoD inspector general has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Remember when then-Admiral Ronny Jackson was twigged for dispensing too many opiates? It sank his VA Secretary nomination. According to CNN, he was known as “the Candyman”… now, of course, that is Congressman Candyman (R, TX). Apparently he left a legacy.<\/p>\n
The medical unit also dispensed hundreds of free prescriptions, including controlled substances, to people in the White House, the DoD inspector general said in a report released Jan. 8.<\/p>\n
The federal watchdog determined that the unit, comprised of military medical personnel and DoD civilians and led by an officer with a paygrade of O-6, had received little to no oversight from the Defense Health Agency or the military services for years despite having its own pharmacy and referring White House staff for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
According to the report, from 2017 through 2020, the Defense Department “funded and resourced care for an average of 6 to 20” non-DoD beneficiary patients per week at no cost to them — medical appointments and services that then were unavailable to active-duty military personnel, their family members or retirees. (emphasis added – ed.)
\n<\/em><\/p>\nAccording to the report, unit staff kept poor prescription records, including those for controlled substances like opioids and sleep medications, and distributed medications like Ambien in unmarked pill bottles with no instructions or recordkeeping.<\/p>\n
Providers told investigators that they had concerns about the practices, including sending non-eligible persons to military treatment facilities, but feared that if they didn’t provide referrals to high-ranking administration officials, their careers would be affected.<\/p>\n
“We feared mostly, you know, for evaluations, for follow?on assignments, for credibility as a professional in our own branches and specialties,” a staff member told the IG.<\/p>\n
As a result of the practice, the Pentagon paid for medical care for those non?DoD beneficiaries, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The services’ executive medicine programs initially were established to ensure that senior military leaders had quick access to medical care and any treatment they received did not disrupt care and services at regular clinics within the military hospital system.<\/p>\n
But that mission has expanded, often to include treating members of Congress and the senior executive service.<\/p>\n
The White House Military Office received a draft of the report in May 2020 for review and held it until July 2023.\u00a0 Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Look at that time line and note that this is not a party-specific problem… it’s across two administrations from two different parties. As I have said for a long time, there is really only one political party. And it thinks we are all saps.<\/p>\n
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