Sen. Tammy Baldwin Knew of VA Abuses, Did Nothing!

More information is coming out about the VA Abuses in Tomah, WI and that information shows that Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin not only had a report about the abuses, she was contacted on multiple occasions by a whistle-blower asking for help.  She did nothing.  Nothing! Not until Sen. Ron Johnson and Congressman Ron Kind asked for an investigation, then Sen. Baldwin stepped up and said she wanted an investigation also.

Grennbay Press Gazette:

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Baldwin's office received an inspection report last summer detailing high amounts of opiates prescribed at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah, but there is no indication her office took action on the findings until last week, when she called for an investigation after a news report revealed a veteran died from an overdose at the facility.

The report by the VA inspector general, a copy of which was obtained by USA TODAY, noted that two practitioners at the center were among the highest prescribers of opiates in a multistate region — at "considerable variance" compared with most opioid prescribers. That, the report said, raised "potentially serious concerns."
 
A whistleblower who learned in November that Baldwin had had a copy for months and hadn't acted, repeatedly emailed her office asking that she do something to help the veterans at the center, according to copies of the emails obtained by USA TODAY.

PDF: Read the report

In them the whistleblower — former Tomah VA employee Ryan Honl — asked that Baldwin call for an investigation, that she push colleagues on the Veterans Affairs committee to take action, and that she help bring the issues in the report to public attention. The report had not been made public, but Baldwin's office received a copy in August.

When she still had not taken public action in December, Honl sent a message to her staffer with the subject line: "Final plea for Help from Senator Baldwin."
 

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