Posted on 12/03/2016 9:59:49 AM PST by NonValueAdded
Gary is a great guy. What qualifies him for being an administrator?
This has great optic potential. I would like to be educated why he would be qualified to run a business with a $80 billion budget and 300,000 employees.
Apparently you are not a Vet? I think you need to find out how many Vets to actually benefit from the VA system. You will find out millions do. I am one and my care at two PA systems has proven to be outstanding by any manner of criteria and not so much at the other two.
Waling into the great VAMCs like walking into fresh air of happiness (I kid you not) where we are greeted and helped, where the floors and heads are truly clean, our appointments are on time, and our docs and others health care workers are excellent.
Walking into the poor quality VA is like walking into a wake. And it goes down hill from there. And if the next head of VA wants to hear it from me (s)he is more than welcome to call or email.
I like him a lot. But I want some heartless SOB finance guy like Trump referenced in the election so many times. A numbers guy who enjoys rooting out lies and BS, firing people and cutting dead weight.
The VA is way overdue for a soulless hatchet man.
That’s standard results for anything government run, just like the schools. You’ll get some good ones and some terrible ones that simply stick around because they are unaffected by competition.
The government model has to go away. That’s the only way to make sure the bad outlets die off. Clinging to the government model because it SOMETIMES works is the wrong attitude. Switching to a private sector model will ensure the rate of quality will be consistently good.
Sarah said what she said. Anyway, she isn’t a good enough administrator to attack this bloated corrupt behemoth. After her run, I am way less impressed with her intelligence than I was in 2008.
The massive failures of treatment at Phoenix VAH and elsewhere. The pending ruling on adding hypertension to the list of Presumptive Agent Orange Illnesses. Think $$$. The burn pit studies. Think $$$. The constant fighting with AFGE and other unions in the VA system. Aging infrastructure.
Did I leave anything out? Oh wait, I did....
“Why don’t we make VA hospitals active duty military sites and let the military deliver health care to their own retirees? “
That is one fine idea. I actually prefer letting service connected condition vets and retirees buy their own insurance with a well funded voucher. No govt needs to be involved at all. But if we do insist that veteran care be dobe by the government, I like your idea a lot.
“I like the guy, but I think it should be a Veteran.”
Ditto. Scott Brown would be excellent and he wants the job.
Gary Sinese is an actor. He has no experience whatsoever with managing a lemonade stand much less the VA. And whoever is selected needs to be a veteran.
“Sarah said what she said. Anyway, she isn’t a good enough administrator to attack this bloated corrupt behemoth. After her run, I am way less impressed with her intelligence than I was in 2008.”
SP has a young special needs child to care for anyway- it is not the best fit even if she did not pass judgment on the Carrier thingy.
But I find it hard to get upset with her. She is such a great conservative and so damn good looking.
I’m a vet and I agree with him.. Dump the VA completely. Buy service connected vets and retirees the best health plans money can buy with no copays.
VA centers good or bad are widely distributed. Driving hours to a different city is ridiculous. The current VA system is a relic of the tremendous numbers of wounded in WWII.
Its idiotic to force vets to pass dozens of world class care facilities to travel to a substandard one just because it has a veteran theme.
Put Carly Fiorina over the VA and give her free rein to fire all their butts and tell her to turn the lights out as she leaves.
Give vouchers for private health care to the vets.
I am a vet. USAF 69 to 73. I have been treated during some bad times at VA Hospitals, ERIE, PA and Dayton. OH. I had no problems (Other than I couldn’t understand what the hell they were talking about). I tried to give them my insurance info and they wouldn’t take it. I do NOT take anything for free. If they had a bed open, you got put into it. I went for a broken hand in Erie, got stuck for three days. The hospitals are enormous, expensive to run and that real estate could be sold and used to reduce our deficit and care could be provided better, more efficient and less costly at non-profit hospitals, medical offices and therapy facilities. Government HAS No business in ours, or anybody else’s care.
Absolutely not. The VA is going to be the toughest job to reform. He doesnt have the necessary experience. ...but he is a stand up guy...maybe some other position
I once met Sinese at the ARMORY (23 & LEX?) In NYC - He is an American patriot, and he has my endorsement.
MAGA!
Carly??? So she can do for the VA what she did for HP? I guess I missed your sarc tag.
I don’t see the need for an uber-administrator in the Secretary’s slot. It is a broken system and we do not need someone who will make it work better. This is the Trump administration. It is a time for transformation.
What will the Secretary be doing? He will be the CEO to Trump’s Chairman of the Board. Give Sinese a team of Under and Deputy Secretaries who have the administration background? Absolutely. Those are the doers anyway.
But he;s not a veteran? Make the Secretary someone who is a combat wounded veteran? That has merit but please make it someone who doesn’t have a tough time commanding an American Legion post. Should he have an advisory board made up of combat-wounded veterans? Essential. But add in some aging Vietnam Vets as a good percentage of the care from the VA has to do with routine aging issues and not combat-related problems. Offload the former to the private system, soon to be transformed by Tom Price.
So what does the Secretary do? They are the public face. They will be testifying before Congress a good deal of the time, especially if the VA is being rebuilt fro the ground up.
Scott Brown a good choice for Secretary? I agree. But I don’t want someone in a committee hearing falling back on their old Senate days referring to the idiot RAT member as “my good friend from across the aisle.” I want “Jane, you ignorant slut!”
Transformation times. Let the VA administer the pensions and benefit signups. Outsource the medical side, to active duty military hospitals who will have the expertise for combat injuries. Routine care gets folded in with Price’s post-ACA healthcare system. Do NOT give us someone who’s aim is to make the broken system more efficient at being broken.
My guess is you never served a single day in uniform. If you had you'd know that as opposed to most "entitlement" recipients, veterans have actually earned our gratitude, often at the cost of body parts, and deserve to be taken care of, especially those who have service-related injuries and illnesses. Even those who were not hurt, and served only during peacetime, are better than all the low-life civilian pu**ies who couldn't be bothered to sacrifice two, three, four or more years of their lives for your security.
I could say more, but the more I think about your lack of gratitude, the less civil I'm feeling. Please tell me I'm completely wrong, and that you mistakenly posted a not-too-well-thought-out, poorly written piece of drivel that didn't make your point at all, that what you really meant to say is that we have the obligation to serve those who have been willing to DIE on our behalf, so we could continue to be lazy, chicken-hearted, worthless civilian pukes who think of nothing other than ourselves.
That's what you meant to say, right?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
Agreed; the facility that treats you makes all the difference.
Sepulveda VA Hospital is great, so is The Long Beach facility.
Just stay the hell away from the LA facility on Wilshire Blvd.
Every facility has it’s own administrator, every facility is different
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