Posted on 05/26/2016 9:31:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I am dead; just refuse to surrender to it.
WOW! They screw up the medical.
They screw up the financial.
Yet they get promoted, raises and bonuses, each year or more!
I was very fortunate, to acquire a job with great benefits.
After that I never returned to the VA.
Not saying there were problems, they were simply overwhelmed and busy, circa 1974.
Still Bush's fault
This is actually an old old problem. I worked for the Veterans Administration from 1976 to 2008. It almost always involved vets with a very common name (Hanson, Johnson, Anderson, Peterson, Smith, Davis,ect.). The next of kin would call in, give us the vet’s name, date of birth and death, but wouldn’t know the Social Security number, VA Claim number or Military serial number. It would be left up to us to try and figure out who was dead. Unfortunately, some clerks just made a guess as to which one it was, but most would actually take the time to figure it out, by pulling files and looking for a date of birth match. Even with a matching date of birth, it would turn out to be the wrong guy.
.... I think it would be good for “some” to know that a lot, if not most of the nurses and doctors at the VA medical centers around the country work their ass off.
My wife is a nurse in the PTSD and alcohol and drug treatment center... She’s never missed a day of work... yesterday worked with a temperature of 100° after being up all night nauseous with the flu and no sleep...Why? Is this VA Hospital is so underfunded it was no one else to take her shift.
... Guys so many of these people are dedicated and truly truly truly care about our veterans.
HEAR! HEAR!
There is a reason that many with good insurance still use (and pay for)the VA services.
Yes, there is the comradery of their common bond, but they also feel it is a good service too.
So four thousand not dead Vets, no doubt there wait time statistics were not calculated into the reported number, by design.
The technique they use to share information is intrinsically capable of creating archipelagos of conflicting information that self-validate and self-perpeptuate. If an incorrect record enters the system it's quite likely that it will never go away for good. Most software managers working on government contracts refuse to admit such a thing could happen, because it would lose the contract to someone who's willing to preserve the fiction.
BTW, it's futile to talk about alternatives, the laws of physics forbid the information ever becoming trustworthy to the degree claimed.
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