Posted on 05/21/2014 1:40:11 PM PDT by Nachum
The director of the Phoenix VA hospital received an $8,500 pay bonus last month even as allegations of 40 deaths resulting from excessive wait times for care were being investigated, according to the Weekly Standard.
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is reportedly responsible for signing off on performance ratings and rewards, but the department’s chairman Jeff Miller said the bonus was the result of “an administrative error.”
The Weekly Standard reports:
Sharon Helman, the director of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, ”got an $8,500 bonus last month while there was an open [inspector general] investigation into Phoenix,” Chairman Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview Wednesday.
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Yes, it was. An Administrator made an error in judgment by signing off on the bonus. His name was Secretary Shinseki and that is why he must go.
Question: What is a veteran’s life worth to Sharon Helman?
Answer: $8,500/40 = $212.50.
Comment: She needs to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to forty consecutive life sentences for voluntary manslaughter.
If you think that the V.A. is bad, wait until obanacare is fully implemented. You can forget about it being repealed. The Republicans want it as bad as the Democrats do. It may or may not be for the same reasons, but they want it.
Was this a “bone-headed bonus” or just the usual “in-your-face incompetence bonus?”
Many of the VA administrators are veterans themselves. However, they are degenerate perverts because they put other issues within the VA over treatment of Veterans. They disdain Veterans. They love nice furniture for their offices and neatly trimmed lawns. They should be fired and disgraced....if not jailed.
Sadly, that’s what I was thinking also.....this is a foretaste of obamacare.
Remember, sheeple are expendable.
Especially old sheeple.
Yikes ... bet they (the dummycrats) have no idea if we roll
It's always sumpthing, isn't it?
Just got a hair cut...and yes I go to an old school barber shop.
Anyway, a veteran (say early 30’s) is in the chair while I’m waiting and he’s talking to the owner, who’s a former Marine. He got out of the service four years ago. He went to the VA once about a year after he was discharged for a chest cold and got a physical at the time. They never told him in person or via mail that annual physicals we’re required to ensure coverage. Fast forward to this year. He’s having some knee pain and suddenly it got worse. He called the VA and said he would likely need a referral. They said that he hadn’t come in for a physical and therefore he couldn’t be referred, because he had lost his primary care physician. So, he asks to schedule a physical with a new physician and they said the earliest appointment was first week of July.
Disgraceful.
Gives them time to misplace his files, so that when he shows up they can give him the run around and reschedule him after Labor Day.
Been there done that too many times with my dad between 1967 and 1990. Of course back in those days they didn’t have the satellite clinics. We had to travel from Vancouver, WA to Seattle or Walla Walla...
Before anyone asks why we didn’t go to the VA hospital in Vancouver, its because that is where they amputated his left leg and made it 4 inches longer than his right after several appointments to measure his legs so they wouldn’t do what they eventually did. Then there was the numerous appointments required to get his shoes built for him. I kid you not. He had to schedule an appointment to have a new pair shoes made and then go back a month later to pick them up!
Reality check - I don’t think it should be called
a bonus - It’s really hush money...
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
Specially old people who still remember what the CONSTITUTION says and is, and the Founders Vision for the USA. And how government is SUPPOSED to work, which they learned in Civics and government classes in HS. Back when they were still teaching it truthfully.
I worked for our local county government for quite a few years when younger. I don’t understand this ‘bonus’ thing because no one ever got bonuses where I worked. You got your pay, vacation time, and sick leave and were expected to do your job. No bonuses for anyone ever.
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