Just more hogs at the trough and the taxpayers continue to fill the trough.
Only in government can you screw up, and demand a raise and more authority.
Government is the Peter Principle on steriods.
1) Give every veteran a universal platinum health insurance card, good for 80% of charges at any hospital, outpatient/surgery center, or medical office. Acceptance required at UCR -20%, discount mandatory, balance billing forbidden.
2) Close every VA hospital and lay off every administrator and other parasite associated with them.
3) Give academic medical centers now supposedly delivering care to veterans three years of transition funding, set at 75%, 50%, 25% to transition the physicians to practices to treat veterans and to replace their "research" funding which is coming out of veteran's benefits now to competitive funding or philanthropy.
Done. Problem solved.
Like every Federal agency, the solution is to throw a s**tpile of more money at it, kick up some dust, and allow the next gaggle of incompetents to get the grift they have coming.
What was all the money the VA has in their budget and is apparently not spending going for?
We had people fired or embarassed for setting up these fake “delay” lists.
Are there computers that can develop those lists or not? If not, where did those lists come from?
Do they need like a bunch of new potted palms for the lobbies of their facilities?
They had people who failed at their jobs. OK, so you fire those people and replace with other people. Why daoes that take a budget increase?
This is just sick as hell, and every damn politician is bent over backwards scrambling to throw more money at this, while the 11-second attention span of the American people gradually paints the whole thing onto the rearview mirror.
Why not just disband the corrupt government run VA and allow the veterans to use vouchers which could be used in the civilian medical industry?
Good grief! Just split the 17B between the vets. Screw the agency!
Notice how government fixes for any problem start and end with the expenditure of vast sums of new money.
But rarely is there any accountability, significant reorganization, or correction of the root causes of the problem.
The “Throw More Money At It” solution holds true for republicans and democrats.
It’s the Socialism, Stupid!
The people that I've dealt with at the VA have been great, but the system is screwed up. A lot of the facilities are WWII era buildings that have been poorly maintained.
It takes me 6 months to get an appointment and I have no say in when it is. They send me a letter telling me when the appointment has been scheduled for and a warning that if I don't show up at the appointment time I will have to wait another 6 months to be scheduled.
Have they fired any of the anti-Vet creeps who allowed Vets to die from neglect??? No, I didn’t think so. Putting more money into what is a management culture problem will only increase that sick culture.
I doubt they need that much money. What they need is to get rid of the union. A union whose contract ties the hands of management from getting the work done.
17 billion to blow on affirmative action hires. YAY.