Posted on 05/24/2016 11:40:21 AM PDT by Nachum
The secretary of veterans affairs, Bob McDonald, refused to apologize for comparing VA wait times to Disneyland wait times earlier today on MSNBC.
"Wait times are important but it is not the only measure of veterans experience. That's what veterans are telling us. We talked to a lot of veterans. It is important and if I were misunderstood or said the wrong thing, I am glad i have to correct it," said McDonald.
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“to him veterans are just a bunch of drawfs”
Let’s not make this hugh and series, but
drawfs: arabic for amazing persons
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drawf
Great idea. Maybe he will then understand that wait times matter. What an idiot.
How many people die while waiting in line to ride Space Mountain?
Maybe Paul Ryan will come out forcefully now. /s
A two hour line at DisneyLand for Space Mountain just doesn’t quite compare to a 6 month line for a cancer examination. Amazing the liberal mind and how it short circuits. He is getting lines mixed up with LINES!
Dims never apologize.
It matters little to me as a combat vet in Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, how long the line is at Disneyland. The people this smoke and mirror fool is trying to discuss are people that in way too many cases not able to go to Disneyland because that can’t do anything there due to injuries they sustained so this back-of-the-lap can have his high paying job and lying about their needs. I am served by he VA Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, and it took me 90 days just to get a physician assigned so I could go in for a record carrying from the military exam. And I was the top priority as I am 100 disabled. Don’t try to tell me if the vets are satisfied with their care when they can’t get an appointment.
And while you are not talking much, explain how when your nurses on the wards at the VA need to take vacation time, they have to put patients out in the street because they can’t get nurses for coverage. I can see where that would garner a huge amount of patient approval.
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Ironic that a guy named “McDonald” is known for SLOW service. He is the golden arch-enemy of veterans.
Behold a worthless excuse for a human being, IMO.
Then I would fire him in 15 minutes instead of an hour.
Dan Quayle’s potatoe would be long forgotten by now if a Republican had hired McDonald.
Romney with his binders of women would be ecstatic as well.
If he’s too important to apologize, then he should quit.
++++A line at the doctor is NOT Disneyland. A delay can mean worse health or death. What a MORON!++++
Not so much anything to do with the Dr visit itself, as once you have tha appointment those go pretty well as fast as the private sector Dr visit. It’s the getting the appointment to get access to the Dr or the clinic. Two yr wait for dental, 1 yr wait for non emergency surgery, months to get MRI or CT or biopsies etc etc. Only get 2 primary care appointments a year others are work ins that can be lengthy waits. Hardly any of these equate to waiting in a disney line and this fool of a tool needs to go if that how he equates health care access.
Put Disneyland in charge of the VA.
The V.A. has been busy spending money to an off-site outfit called IPSOS, which has been doing a mass-mail feedback program, concerniing veterans and their treatment while either hsopitalized, or seen by any other on-facility doctor, aside from the veterans’ assigned ‘team’ doctors.
This guy needs to be placed in a room with chickenwire windows, in “the building in the back”, for about an hour, once the folks there have been told what he said.
He’s gone in a few months, just waiting for his final bonus.
“If I were misunderstood,” sounds like something Hillary would say.
No, I understood what you said - jerk wad.
libtards don’t like objective measures of incompetence when a subjective one is available
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