Posted on 06/05/2016 6:24:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Veterans would do a lot better if Disney were running the VA
By Hadley Heath Manning
May 25, 2016 | 8:37pm
Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald is claiming he was either misunderstood or that he misspoke when he said, “When you go 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 has appropriately received blowback for this tone-deaf comment, and he backtracked 33 hours later (who’s counting?). But his comment was not only insensitive. It was also wrong.
Of course health care is a matter of life and death and shouldn’t be compared to a tilt-a-whirl ride at an amusement park. And obviously wait times are an important part of how quality of care should be measured.
Even worse for the VA secretary, his revealing comment speaks to a terrible truth for America’s veterans: They’d actually be better off if a private company, like Disney, were in charge of their care.
The VA has been in hot water over waiting times since 2014, when journalists revealed that scores of veterans died while waiting for care in the Phoenix VA system on “unofficial” and manipulated waiting lists. Further investigations by the VA inspector general, Congress and the White House revealed that the problem was not isolated to Phoenix, but actually affected tens of thousands of veterans nationwide.
Nearly two years later, wait times are still too long, and the feds still aren’t being transparent enough about them. The VA Office of the Inspector General reported that 21 of 38 facilities investigated were using “improper scheduling.” USA Today explained:
“The problems included schedulers entering the next available date as a veteran’s desired date, thereby reflecting no wait time. In some cases, they found managers directing them to do it. In others, VA staff had lists of patients outside the system, which meant their actual wait time was unknown.”
http://nypost.com/2016/05/25/veterans-would-do-a-lot-better-if-disney-were-running-the-va/
In what nation are these freaks domiciled?
Thank you for your service!
We need to use the computer!!! E-mails and messages to crooked Congressmen...Messages to groups willing to go against the status quo...Organize...
THEN....Show up in force at the ballot box and at meetings...
If it comes down to it, use the power of the people to take back what is right and good about this country...
Before the internet, we were pretty much in the dark about a lot of the goings on in DC...Now we are able to hear and read much more...
Use your internet and computer for that purpose...It does have power...
How many in the VA administration are actually veterans????
So let me get this straight...the VA can not provide the proper medical services for normal folks so lets throw the trannies into the mix?Yeah that makes sense to a liberal...these people are dangerous. Just wish average Joe Sixpack understood how dangerous they are...Hillary yesterday was equating Trumps german background with being a Nazi....this is getting uglier by the day
US seeks to learn from allies' experience about transgender troops
Washington event follows Hagel’s call for ‘continuous review’
18 countries allow transgender personnel to serve openly 
Transgender military personnel from Sweden, New Zealand and Australia listen to Corporal Natalie Murray of Canada speak at an event about transgender troops in Washington. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/transgender-us-military-allies-armed-forces
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I am so glad that the VA is so well funded that it has money left over after taking care of veteran’s health issues to spend on this totally unnecessary and damaging cosmetic procedure. < /sarc >
Studying the decline and fall of empires of the past shows they all started with the initial decay we are seeing in our nation, our government, our military and in the citizenry, in general, today.
Holy crap!
Just send them on the battlefield and let the enemy SEE them...and the battle is WON!
If ugly was a weapon, those...uh, persons, should be licensed and controlled.
Yes, before the internet, we were in the dark. But knowledge is for crap if you don't act on it. I've been here since '99, reading the same 'ol bitching, moaning and groaning from the same bunch of lazy-a**es. The internet is useless if it doesn't spur you into action.
What does work is, as you said, organizing. Get a couple dozen PO'd rabble rousers like yourself together, make the protest signs, then camp out in front of your congresscritters' local offices. Make sure you tell the local media, 'cause they love that kind of stuff.
Keyboard commandos need to get off their lazy butts and become pavement commandos.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I hear you...
Maybe my husband should go demand sex surgery instead of asking for his benefit from being exposed to asbestos and now having mesothelioma??? I’m so surprised that there haven’t been any angry vets or their families going crazy and tearing up a VA clinic like that black woman who was videotaped going crazy over her rejected EBT card! That’s cuz we tend to be the ones who get in line, take orders, man up and take things. But I can tell you we are reaching our limit!!! Praying Trump will become President and fix this problem!
You are exactly right. The VA refuses to let Vets with agent orange caused cancers get the best treatment that might save or prolong their lives, citing expense, but will now allow transgender surgery?
BO has destroyed this nation, with help from lots of leftists
SMH
...and attached to her.
Wow! Great ample-sized gams on these chicks.
Betcha they don’t shave their pits, or legs. These are manly troops.
Someone can get a million dollar sex change but try to get a hip so you can walk like a man should.
“...turn us into a “third world” country to be overrun by Muslims... That is what he is aiming for...”.....
Perhaps our service people are aiming at the wrong enemy.
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