[SkyPilot]

Imagine that. You treat highly trained professionals like doctors, nurses, and medical research scientists like dirt, take 20% of their paychecks, freeze their pay for 4 years, and you get a brain drain.

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Congress currently appears inclined to allow automatic budget cuts to resume next year.

She said the civilian medical staff worked side-by-side with uniformed doctors and nurses during the years that casualties arrived from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, adding that their services will be needed as the Army recovers from the fighting.

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This is an obscenity. I know what many will post here in an angry retort: "Hey! There are a lot of worthless bureaucrats too!"

True, but most Federal agencies that are worthless avoided furloughs altogether. The DoD, a Constitutional enterprise, gets hurt by Sequestration far, far harder than any other agency (50% of all cuts) - and 650,000 DoD maintainers, cops, firefighters, doctors, engineers, and nurses were furloughed by Obama and Hagel. The GOP Congress is not blameless, they voted for Sequestration and used DoD as a hostage. When Obama and the Democrats shot the hostage, the GOP did shrugged their shoulders, and continue to do so.

The GOP of Ronald Reagan is dead.

Long live the "new" GOP.

It isn't just medical professional leaving DoD: engineers and highly sought after specialists like Military Working Dog handlers or those who understand Contracting (where you can make much more money in industry) are leaving in droves or about to jump ship.

And on top of all this......we are about to embark in a major war in the Middle East that could widen into WW III overnight.

[SkyPilot]

Title of Stars and Stripes article is:

Military civilian medical workers quit after furloughs

[mountainlion]

I hope a bunch of them come over to the V.A. With threats from the IRS lots of uninsured Veterans are headed to VA for healthcare which will hit the overloaded system hard.

[George from New England]

This maybe more due to Obamacare in general and the mass medical exodus rather than anything to do with the Sequester/Furlough.

[Starboard]

The sequester is merely a band aid for a government that that is in critical condition becuase we are simply running out of other people’s money. Future cuts will be necessary and be far more painful. Its inevitable.

The GOP has enabled this mess IMO and should be held accountable along with their Democrat partners in crime.

[yldstrk]

Look who she kept: the evil psychobabblers

“She exempted most of her behavioral health staff, where only about 10% were sent home one day a week.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

One of the Roman Caesars was mortally wounded. As he lay dying, he told his successor,
“Always make sure the Army is paid!”

[Thunder90]

Unfortunately, there are not many jobs out there for these people thanks to Obamacare.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Just a prelude for 0bamacare!

Some of my kin happen to be physicians and would be ahead if most of the Medicaid/Medicare was done for FREE, if the paper work was eliminated!

It gets worse.
Some procedures mandated because they are ~95% effective also majorly expensive and VERY uncomfortable for the patient. So much so that many never complete the treatment and will go blind!
The old procedure was cheap,simple and painless but ~85% effective !

And the out of pocket expense was big numbers on the gov way.

[dagogo redux]

Behind each doctor or nurse who quits is an army of bureaucrats dictating orders to the doctors and nurses, and behind each one of them an army of politicians and lawyers dictating what they must dictate to the doctors and nurses.

When the front line troops - the docs and nurses - desert, you may still have an army, but it will consist only of human infrastructure: Chain of command, JAG officers, logistics and support units, etc - few of whom ever gave a meaningful rap about the front line medical troops who actually saw patients.