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VA secretary: Disney doesn´t measure wait times, so why should VA?
Washington Examiner ^ | 5/23/16 | Sarah Westwood

Posted on 05/23/2016 9:03:15 AM PDT by Nachum

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn´t use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn´t either. "When you got 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 said Monday during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters. "And what I would like to move to, eventually, is that kind

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KEYWORDS: clownsincharge; disney; noaccountability; nointegrity; noshame; secretary; va; veterans; wait
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To: Nachum

What??!!!???


81 posted on 05/23/2016 10:01:32 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: tuwood

“Wow, put this guy at the front of the line for “You’re Fired” when Trump gets in office.”

Trump needs to send this guy a letter right now saying he will expect the guy to be out of his office at or before the moment when he says: “So help me God” on January 17th.


82 posted on 05/23/2016 10:02:41 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: dfwgator

nobody dies if they have to wait two hours for “It’s a Small World”.


I got stuck on that ride for over an hour with my two daughters and believe me I wanted to die. But you are right, it’s sheer stupidity to compare Disney wait to people needing medical attention. The guy should be fired and come January he will be for sure.


83 posted on 05/23/2016 10:04:40 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: Nachum

Vets would be deliriously happy if their wait times rivaled those of Disney. But, instead, the VA seems intent on killing them slowly. We’ve tried putting vets in charge of the VA, only to learn they’re totally incompetent. Instead of certifying the insanity of the current method, why not put proven successful medical center directors in charge?


84 posted on 05/23/2016 10:05:11 AM PDT by DPMD (o)
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To: Starboard

This comment compares to Biden’s at the West Point graduation where he said our military is much stronger since the let the LGBT’s in and allow women into combat.


85 posted on 05/23/2016 10:05:23 AM PDT by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: Bushbacker1

“Are you f*cking kidding me?!!!! The SOB should be shot! Not dead, but hurt just enough so he has to wait to be treated!”

Agreed! Just make sure you shoot him in the groin so he can never reproduce!


86 posted on 05/23/2016 10:05:43 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Velveeta

This what she means....... solidarity

87 posted on 05/23/2016 10:07:37 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Nachum

okay VA, then measure how many vets die while waiting in line for treatment since no one dies waiting at Disney Land


88 posted on 05/23/2016 10:12:17 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Nachum

Uhhhh, but Disney DOES measure wait times....and often does something about it, like it gets creative and invents things like FastPass.


89 posted on 05/23/2016 10:13:21 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: MichaelCorleone

That is amazingly stupid even for the Obama administration. Totally clueless.


90 posted on 05/23/2016 10:13:40 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Nachum

With democrats, affirmative action and tolerance, includes insuring that the idiots and morons, get jobs they don’t deserve. As long as they follow liberal politics, anything goes. Stupidity and ignorance are the basic requirements for being a democrat.


91 posted on 05/23/2016 10:18:32 AM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: Nachum

OBVIOUSLY THIS GUY HAS NEVER BEEN THERE.....................


92 posted on 05/23/2016 10:21:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: Nachum

People waiting at Disney...want to.

People waiting at the VA...have to.


93 posted on 05/23/2016 10:21:45 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Nachum

Going to Disney is a want, getting medical care is a need.


94 posted on 05/23/2016 10:22:45 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Nachum

Fire this clown. NOW!!!


95 posted on 05/23/2016 10:23:19 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: Nachum

Right, because there is no difference between someone waiting with a life threatening illness and someone waiting to enter the magic kingdom.

Gee, why didn’t we think of that?


96 posted on 05/23/2016 10:39:33 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: The Sons of Liberty; Diogenesis; sport; Don Corleone; Excuse_My_Bellicosity; xzins; BwanaNdege; ...

bmp


97 posted on 05/23/2016 10:41:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Nachum

Someone once said that if you gave the Sahara Desert to the Liberals there would not be one grain of sand left within 6 months....


98 posted on 05/23/2016 10:50:06 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: Sergio; Nachum; MarvinStinson
Sergio :" People waiting at Disney...want to.
People waiting at the VA...have to."

People at Disney are there by choice, spend money, and Disney holds its' employees accountable.
People waiting at the VA...have to to stay alive , solve medical problems, and no one is held accountable.
and no bumping in line allowed.
That would get their attention !

99 posted on 05/23/2016 10:51:20 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Sergio; Nachum; MarvinStinson
Sergio :" People waiting at Disney...want to.
People waiting at the VA...have to."

People at Disney are there by choice, spend money, and Disney holds its' employees accountable.
People waiting at the VA...have to to stay alive , solve medical problems, and no one is held accountable.
Since Congress absolved themselves from participation in ObamaCare , they should be mandated to get into the line at the V.A.,
and no bumping in line allowed.

That would get their attention !

100 posted on 05/23/2016 10:52:39 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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