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VA won't commit to firing employees who cooked the books.
2014-05-17
[PJ Media] WASHINGTON -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki insisted today that he's "mad as hell" about the wait list scandal and reported deaths of dozens of veterans seeking care, but his undersecretary suggested that VA employees who cooked the books might not even lose their jobs.

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stressed that he wanted to save a hearing on the scandal for a later date, and instead declared the hearing should be about "what is going well and what is not going well" in VA healthcare.
"Going well" is what is EXPECTED! The dead veteran factor needs immediate scrutiny and a legal finding.
And from Hot Air, a seventh VA hospital with a secret waiting list.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  .....its the incompetence and corruption that is killing my fellow vets.

...and the nation.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-17 11:32  

#11  the VA has plenty of money, its the incompetence and corruption that is killing my fellow vets.
Posted by: bman   2014-05-17 11:15  

#10  Financial Times (behind all kinds of walls:)

Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its healthcare reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence.

If the FT is worried, then there's a problem.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-05-17 10:59  

#9  Meh, why NASCAR invented templates. FireBall Roberts wasn't all that tall. :)


Don't touch the F#c#k1ng Car!
Posted by: Shipman   2014-05-17 10:50  

#8  

If you're not cheat'n, you're not winnin.
Gotta be Smokey

Posted by: Shipman   2014-05-17 10:41  

#7  Millions for Marie Antoinette the first family and entourage junkets to China et al, but not one penny more for the VA care of veterans*. You know where these people stand and believe, not by their words, but by their actions - you peasants.

* if you don't have the staff, you can outsource it, if you have the money. America this is the one payer healthcare the socialists want you to have (exempting their top 5 percent of course, as always).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-05-17 09:34  

#6  duuuuhhh, apologies.... 'targeted numerics.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-17 09:12  

#5  When so called "performance objectives" include targeted a numeric [see the veteran within 14 days], failure to meet the 'objective' can have adverse career impacts to include salary and promotion.

If you're not cheat'n, you're not winnin.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-17 08:57  

#4  Don't they give people like this (cooking the books) a big bonus and promotion?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-05-17 08:49  

#3  As Barbra Walters week draws to a close, it's always great to see Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon and supporting our veterans.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-17 07:59  

#2  If you are a Vet and you go to a VA hospital...you are ...stupid and ( like Kerry said ) if you actually once HAD anything to offer you would have gotten a "real" job.

You want to know what the people in Washington DC think of you?
Go over there and lay in the corner and wait to die.

No?
I must have just imagined it then.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646   2014-05-17 04:43  

#1  "Mad as hell" was he? I've seen a few "mad as hell" generals. He certainly didn't look or act like any of them. Theater, all theater.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-17 03:31  

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