Posted on 08/30/2015 9:34:46 AM PDT by george76
In the battle between bureaucrats and veterans, the Obama administration stands with the bureaucrats. Last week the White House threatened to veto the VA Accountability Act, a bill that would moderately streamline the process for firing incompetent Department of Veterans Affairs employees. Under the terms of the act, the VA secretary can’t place employees on paid administrative leave for more than 14 days per year, employees’ initial-hire probationary period is extended to 18 months, and terminated employees have seven days to file an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
But these streamlined termination provisions — which still provide far more job protection than most private-sector employees enjoy — were too punitive for the resident.
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Yet VA employees have singled themselves out, creating and perpetuating a bureaucratic culture that redefines incompetence. It’s hard to imagine a more dysfunctional bureaucracy. The Huffington Post recently reported that “238,000 of the 847,000 veterans with pending applications for VA health care have already died.” And that’s on top of coast-to-coast wait-time scandals that literally cost lives (at least 42 facilities have been investigated) and other scandals including sexual misconduct, drug rings run from VA facilities, and thefts from dying patients. VA employees even “fail to show up for work” at a rate “exceeding every other department and agency.”
To make matters worse, the VA has been significantly overpaying its staff:
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you need a disability rating to get mileage reimbursement
Welcome home and thank you for doing what the enemy hates! You will get a big hug if I run into you.
What about getting care at a private, non VA, hospital ?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawmakers-allow-veterans-waiting-for-care-to-go-to-non-va-facilities/
david is dwelling under the mis apprehension that that boy in the White House gives a damn about the VA
the VA is military. that boy is a military hating pacifist
We had over a dozen here in San Diego, up for the entire pride event
His intention is to damage America in every way. His last year in office is going to be CRAZY.
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