Posted on 05/23/2016 11:24:16 AM PDT by Mariner
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn't either.
"When you got to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what's important? What's important is, what's your satisfaction with the experience?" McDonald said Monday during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters. "And what I would like to move to, eventually, is that kind of measure."
McDonald's comments angered House Speaker Paul Ryan, who tweeted out Monday afternoon, "This is not make-believe, Mr. Secretary. Veterans have died waiting in those lines."
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Anyone know the origins of Robert McDonald?
Anyone with any familiarity with bureaucracy won’t be particularly surprised about this.
Defund this a-holes salary and benefits.
Pretty much says it all when they want to compare health services at the VA to a Mickey Mouse organization.
Ok, then lets measure “satisfaction with the experience”....
I think it would be safe to assume the dead would be “completely unsatisfied”.
See the original thread linked in post 2 by TexasGator. Disney does in fact measure wait times.
Cabinet Secretaries serve at the pleasure of the _resident. I expect a call for his resignation in 3, 2, 1 ... oh, wait.
G D FOOL would not say that if he had to use the VA.....what a worthless shit head. How Make folks die waiting in line at Disney. Only a DEMORAT would ever make such a statement....The total Obama Admin. is just Sorry Shits.
WHAT A DAMN FOOL. I suspect he spent 10 minutes in the Girl Scouts.
I did search and nothing came up
Maybe because people aren’t as likely to die waiting to get on Disneyland rides?
Did this really happen? The bastard should be fired. If he cannot answer that question, he has no business running a magazine stand.
Homeland security will soon be making available a new wait-in-line board game to make the hours just fly bye. Oh damn, that was my flight.
Hey, wait a minute! Aren’t those who have physical ailments and/or in a wheelchair allowed to go to the front of a line at Disney’s parks?
People don’t die waiting to get on “Its a Small World”. Jackazz.
A long wait at Disney might leave you with a sunburn & disgruntled. A long wait at the VA might leave you DEAD which I would argue would not leave either you or your family with much ‘satisfaction with the experience”. What an idiot (I’m restraining my choice of language here) - he should be removed/fired for that comment alone.
I believe he ran Johnson & Johnson.
...this clown is pissing off the wrong people. He
will regret that statement!
This is why the house needs to be cleaned at the VA.
Please tell me that comment came from TheOnion.com and not the Director of Veterans Affairs.
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