The Office of Inspector General does a damn good job so long as it is non political and will not cause a problem for the the top brass. If it is a political problem one must always remember the the IG works for the top political brass.
I have worked for the VA for 23 years and I am proud of my work and proud of the work that most of my fellow care givers have done. I have also put my job on the line to make sure what is right is done. When I did this it was quietly corrected. If I was wrong, I would have been gone.
However, about 15 to 20 percent of the VA should be fired tomorrow morning and about 50% of the higher bureaucracy also.
The real problem is VA care is a totally rational program given the structure of the VA. This rationale is of central control and structure. You can not cure the VA by firing a few people. The cure for the VA is to sell it to private enterprise and fund it properly. Oddly enough it is funded well but these funds are squandered by the federal bureaucracy. The cure is to privatize it but funded by the Federal Government. The governments only role should be to determine that the funds are spent properly and put in jail any and all fraud.
The good guys in the VA would welcome this. The bad guys would tremble in fear of this.
I agree with you. The VA by it’s very structure is a goldmine for fraud. Like any government bureaucracy, it exists to support itself, not the people it purports to serve. I’d be willing to bet that we could buy private insurance policies that could do a better job for our vets and the VA does.
The lead paragraphs of the article were somewhat misleading. The true premise of the article was how many people needlessly die to support Obama’s ego. Either at the VA, military, civilian, or innocents in general.