Posted on 06/07/2017 5:22:35 PM PDT by mdittmar
VETERANS: At Oversight Hearing, Sen. Murray Urges VA Secretary to Reject Trump Administration’s Efforts to Move VA Toward Privatization
While VA works on a long-term plan to reduce wait times and improve veteran care, the Trump Administration is pushing provisions that would weaken the entire VA system
Sen. Murray: “These moves show a disturbing trend toward downsizing and dismantling this VA, rather than strengthening the system to better serve millions of veterans in communities in Washington state and across the country”
(Washington, D.C.) – Today in a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) questioned Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Dr. David Shulkin about whether he supports Trump Administration initiatives that would weaken VA in the coming years, moving the agency toward privatization. Sen. Murray, a senior member of the Committee and the daughter of a World War II veteran, is staunchly opposed to dismantling VA and has urged her colleagues in Congress to support a series of reforms to strengthen veteran care. In today’s hearing, Sen. Murray asked Secretary Shulkin about particular provisions that would destabilize the system.
Watch the exchange between Sen. Murray and Secretary David Shulkin here.
In 2014, in the wake of the Phoenix VA wait list scandal, Congress passed the temporary Veteran Choice Act to give veterans who meet certain criteria the option to seek outside care. As the temporary program winds down, Sen. Murray has repeatedly urged her colleagues to strengthen VA and reform community care to better serve veterans in both rural and urban areas. For more on Sen. Murray’s five principles to reform VA care, click here.
Here's an old song I like.
This “lady” is nuts.
Since Trump hired him who should he answer to?
Stupid people do not know they are stupid; a case in point here.
She hates Veterans always has, as well as all Military her past actions have proved it. Where has she been when all of these things happened, give me a break she is protecting her people.
As a Viet Nam vet I could not agree more! You nailed it my good man!
Make her have to have VA health care. Her whole family too.
Shrink government. Vouchers for vets. Get rid of the VA.
Same here.
I wonder if Patty knows that President Trump signed the Veteran’s Choice Improvement Act a few weeks ago. The Choice program is only going to get better. She’s a moron.
Sen. Murry, with my butt towards you, I flip my short KILT up, and FART in your direction!
Love how they threw in that she’s a daughter of a WWII vet. Like only about 90% of her contemporaries.
Like she really gives a damn about veterans.
She’s just trying to make Trump look bad.
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA),the guardian of Veteran unions;)
She is a real piece of work isn’t she?
She is stupider than Maxine Waters....if thats even possible.Evidentaly it is.
Welcome home!
As I talked to a nurse who works at our local VA clinic, the first thing I noticed is that 90% of her workload and problems are caused by the Bad Conduct Discharge, Unfit for Mil Svc, For the Good of the service, Other than Honorable, etc. type of discharge that Jim-uh Carter and subsequent Presidents changed to Administrative Discharges. Those thousands upon thousands of these cretins are inundating the system. Remember, many of these never even made it through basic training and others never even set a foot on a military base except after returning from Canada (or wherever) to process their Administrative Discharge.
Since a significant portion of them are “drug seekers”, they are almost always “indigent” (or at least claims so) and move up the access list bumping many true veterans including those with serious war injuries.
Im-f*ckin-possible! But, close!
The Phoenix VA has 13 employees that make over $300K per year.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2014/06/08/highest-salaries-and-bonuses-paid-in-phoenix-va-facility/
Imagine that on a nationwide scale.
AS usual, she just doesn’t get it. There is no money moron, Their hasn’t been any money for years due to programs that were wrongly applied and are outdated and shouldn’t still be used to assist vets of which there are no more of them. And a lot of that is earmarked money that can’t be syphoned into other programs to cover the losses there. The VA has millions of dollars in side funds that have been there for years and are still coming. It’s not a matter of money. It’s a mater of liquid money.
rwood
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