I’m not letting Shinseki off the hook so easily. He is a 4 star general, he knows how to run a staff, he knows how to compel reports and updates, he knows how to see the status of his command. Complaining that some bureaucracy has blocked his knowing what is going on is his ONLY defense, and that is no defense for a guy who’s supposed to know how to over come that.
And if he cannot overcome that, then he REPORTS it to Congress.
The VA is nothing more than an extended sick call and orderly room for troops who have had active/reserve duty. It’s problems appear to be that its buried under huge layers of bureaucracy. There is no more reason for it not to work than there is for any other non-profit hospital consortium not to work. And LOTS of non-profits hospitals work just fine.
The VA’s problem is bureaucracy, and I’m also betting big on waste, fraud, and abuse.
And the VA’s budget just about doubled for next fiscal year, from 84 billion to 154 billion...
Guess where that new revenue is going???
To bring on more non-doctor desk jockeys hell bent upon rationing the care to our Veterans killing them piecemeal...
Something tells me it would be safe to bet nothing will be done about it as far as cleaning up that top heavy government organization...
“I’m not letting Shinseki off the hook so easily. “
I am with you. When you “raid the whorehouse you take the piano player too.” Shitstiki is a worthless old man who, in five years has done nothing perceptible about this long-festering problem. Like McLame, I don’t give a $hit what he did in the military, he’s an abject failure in his current role and needs to be gone immediately.