i hope his taxes are in order...
Posted on 05/15/2014 5:42:41 PM PDT by Hoodat
CNN's "The Lead" anchor Jake Tapper grilled White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough over the scandal involving failures of the Department of Veterans Affairs to give veterans timely treatment.
Tapper detailed the failures under current VA Secretary Eric Shinseki such as the 2011 Legionnaires Disease outbreak and the fact that the VA officials responsible for the outbreak were given perfect performance reviews and raises, and blasted the “culture of no accountability” at the VA.
He also detailed a 2013 letter from House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-FL) raising concern over malfeasance within the VA healthcare system that was responded to with “boilerplate.”
After McDonough argued that the VA is working on fixing the problems within its system Tapper asked “How many stories like this, how many letters like this, how many dead veterans do you need before somebody asks the question within the White House ‘Maybe this guy isn’t the best steward of these veterans’?”
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They want us all to go & die, before they have to pay any more monies to & for us. that way they can have more for the illegals here!
i hope his taxes are in order...
Way to go Jake!!! Sincerest compliments, Jake!!!
Hey America! Wake up! This is the future of ObamaCare!
The problem is the performance bonus system. It has a good side but it also has a dark side. Look at the liar loan mortgage crisis in Wall Street banks. Front line supervisors of mortgage originators were warned by workers that some of their top mortgage originators were encouraging borrowers to lie on their applications. Since the gov was willing to buy all the mortgages from bankers after six months, banks decided to make money on fees, points and etc in lieu of the life of the loan, and quickly sell it to the US gov. Result was a push to lend as many very large loans in the shortest time frame. Supervisors got bonuses if their section did the most loans, and chose to ignore the warning signs so they can get their bonuses. The same attitude existed up line.
The VA scandal has the same root. VA hospital management was given performance bonuses if they can get as many vets to see a doctor within 2 weeks of making an appointment. Problem was that was not possible with the number of vets needing medical treatment vs doctors available. The VA managers decided to create an unofficial list of vets who need to see a doctor on paper and set their appointments weeks to months later. However the set up date for the appointment would be entered into the computer system within two weeks of the actual vet appointment. Thus creating an illusion that the VA hospital was seeing most vets within 2 weeks of setting up an appointment. Now the managers and their supervisors met their performance objectives and get bonuses for achievements that were faked by entry manipulation. IAW the scheduling clerks, immediate supervisors were committing fraud, the question is how high up does the awarness exists.
The VA office in New York City that processed vet claims had a similar scandal, involving bonuses. Congress require each VA claims processing office to enter what percentage of claims reached certain stages of processing in a monthly report to Congress. Certain performance goals must be achieved to qualify for bonuses. The branch chiefs who collected and entered the data onto the computer reporting system fudged the numbers. It was the unusual patterns detected by fraud pattern software that alerted the VA inspection team to inspect the New York office to take a closer look at the data entered. The VA inspectors found the data reported to Congress did not match the status of the actual claims files referenced. The inspectors were able to establish who was involve by seizing the emails of the branch chiefs. Some of them actually bragged about it in their emails to their friends. Motivation to commit fraud was wanting to qualify for the end of year performance bonuses.
we get VA patients all the time where I work....they have an option to go to a regular hospital and most of them do, because they have Medicare or other insurance...IOWS....they don't lay around being sick and not seek help....anyone who comes to the ER who is sick or injured gets treatment no questions asked....
be careful folks...this VA "crisis" is just another nick in bammys belt to get ALL of us on one payer system...
you like your tricare?.....it soon could be a thing of the past...because if they deem the VA system is too complicated, too encumbered, what are they going to do to tricare?
It is obvious that the Democrats are stalling the Veterans in order to use the money to buy votes.
Perhaps Secretary Shinseki is a victim of the Peter Principle? Him and a whole lotta other folks in the nobama regime.
They’ve built satelite “clinics” all around Houston. Everytime I go it looks like I’m the only one there. I believe they were built for when single payer takes over.
I also have medicare Part A for major stuff. If I get something bad wrong that the VA can’t get to I’ll sign up for Part B.
And compared with what Obamacare is about to become, with no doctors, it’ll look like the Mayo Clinic.
When Libs start saying how great Ocare is going to be I just tell them two words...VA Hospitals and that shuts their pieholes.
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