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Obama adds 39,454 new employees to Veterans Administration, but less than 10% are doctors
Open the Books ^ | May 2016

Posted on 08/29/2016 6:59:52 AM PDT by grundle

While long wait times persisted the VA added 39,454 new positions to their payroll between 2012-2015. Fewer than ten percent of these new positions (3,591) were ‘Medical Officers,’ i.e. doctors.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: barackobama; healthcare; hillarycare; obama; obamacare; obamahatesvets; romneycare; vascandal
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1 posted on 08/29/2016 6:59:52 AM PDT by grundle
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I’ll bet the ones that aren’t doctors are donors who now make $85K/yr for a three day week.


2 posted on 08/29/2016 7:05:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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To: grundle

and many of them are black...


3 posted on 08/29/2016 7:11:08 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Read a statistic a while back. 50% of black college graduates work for the government.

Do nothing j Bs with big pay and benefits. Instead of helping Veterans, employee more do nothings.


4 posted on 08/29/2016 7:11:29 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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You can bet they are all trusted Rats, though.


5 posted on 08/29/2016 7:18:38 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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What percentage of hospital staff do doctors represent on average?

10% sounds about right to me after you account for med techs, nurses, administration, facilities, NPs, PAs...

Anyone work in the medical field have an opinion?


6 posted on 08/29/2016 7:19:42 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: TigerClaws

Aside from the few and far between Veterans who profess to receive good care at a VA, most Veterans are shuffled around, put on excessive wait lists, have their records “lost”, sneered-down-upon by staff and generally dismissed as lesser people. Close the VA and give the Veterans a health plan that they can take anywhere. The VA is a LIB make-work plan. However, they do have nice grounds and nice furniture in their managers’ offices. Also, the employees have excellent benefits and retirement plans.


7 posted on 08/29/2016 7:19:59 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: TigerClaws; ExTexasRedhead

“Read a statistic a while back. 50% of black college graduates work for the government.

Do nothing j Bs with big pay and benefits. Instead of helping Veterans, employee more do nothings.”

But, but you don’t understand! All the VA is is a “jobs program” for Blacks and other minorities. Today the VA has nothing to do with health care for veterans, it’s simoly a “vehicle” to give money to the gibbsmedats, plus a gold-plated, unearned retirement. It’s the same for the Post Office. When is the last time you saw a white person delivering the mail? And the biggest problem with all of it is that now Government “Employees” have become a voting bloc that is formidable.


8 posted on 08/29/2016 7:21:57 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: TigerClaws

Read a statistic a while back. 50% of black college graduates work for the government.

Do nothing j Bs with big pay and benefits. Instead of helping Veterans, employee more do nothings.

So true. And most are from pathetic black colleges that teach nothing but hatin’ whitey and diversity. Many are pretty much illiterate when they graduate.

And so many go into education because they know they’ve got a sure job when they get out. I saw on the news while I was on a business trip in Montgomery, Alabama and that the school system guarantees a job to anyone graduating from the black college there. Some of these black schools are little more than degree mills.


9 posted on 08/29/2016 7:25:07 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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Fewer than ten percent of these new positions (3,591) were ‘Medical Officers,’ i.e. doctors.

How many were nurses, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, or other people who could actually help patients?

10 posted on 08/29/2016 7:33:19 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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“So true. And most are from pathetic black colleges that teach nothing but hatin’ whitey and diversity. Many are pretty much illiterate when they graduate.”

Which is the first issue with, “college degree required.” Black and Womyn’s studies aren’t degree programs. They are resume builders so people who are idiots can get interviews.


11 posted on 08/29/2016 7:38:19 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: grundle

No wonder care is declining.

5.56mm


12 posted on 08/29/2016 7:49:45 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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Which means the concession area will be filled with workers who officially start at 9:00AM but don’t leave the concession till 1:00 PM.

I shamed a “worker” (more like a drone) into leaving the concession area and going to his office because of this! He said he didn’t open till 1:00 PM and I said in a very loud voice “THE SIGN ON YOUR DOOR SAYS YOU OPEN AT 9:00! AND THERE ARE PEOPLE BACKED UP NOW WAITING NOW FOR YOU!”


13 posted on 08/29/2016 7:56:29 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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The VA needs more clerical to keep up with the every growing list of appointments six months down the road.


14 posted on 08/29/2016 8:01:58 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: grundle

The bureaucrats at the VA are organized crime.


15 posted on 08/29/2016 8:03:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: grundle

I read that VA doctors see only about 6 patients a day during office hours compared to about 25 a day for those in private practice.


16 posted on 08/29/2016 8:13:15 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Only idiot liberals believe that disarming the sheep makes them safe from the wolves.)
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Fewer


17 posted on 08/29/2016 8:31:38 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Hating Islam is the natural consequence of caring about people in the Middle East, including Muslims)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I have received excellent care on several occasions at the
VA hospital in Cheyennne. No complaint.


18 posted on 08/29/2016 9:06:20 AM PDT by tommix2
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To: tommix2

Then you are the exception.


19 posted on 08/29/2016 9:09:31 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Only idiot liberals believe that disarming the sheep makes them safe from the wolves.)
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To: grundle

I’d love to see the demographics.


20 posted on 08/29/2016 10:05:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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