As I said, the surplus money carry over COULD BE FOR Doctors and medical staff they were not able to hire.... If that is the case, WHY haven't they been able to hire them? Is it their recruiting method that is lacking? Or is it that what is being paid to these doctors and professionals not comparative to the private sector, thus the difficulty in filling positions? What?the carry over, was this money for hiring medical doctors and nurses? Are we having a hard time hiring Doctors and nurses due to the amount of money the gvt pays them vs what they can make in the Private sector and this is the surplus carry over money?This is turning into one hell of a sick joke. To claim there is not enough funding but the sons of bitches are carrying over surpluses is plain flat out looney tunes.
They have received what they have requested and the one article has them at 10 billion more than four years ago.
For crying out loud are the left wing that nuts that despite all the proof to the contrary they are still going to cry poor for the VA?
Aren't you even the least bit curious as to what is actually causing the "wait time" problem with the VA? Or is this ALL ABOUT POLITICS to you TD?
I don't know how much more money the VA will need or not need...
to me, we need to find out what is CAUSING their wait time lag problems first, then we can address whether we need more money or not....I won't rule out either, we could need more money to solve the problem or we could just need some heavy duty revamping the system with no money involved....ONLY finding out what is CAUSING our wait time problems, can give us an answer to the money issue....
The VA has asked and received the money they said they needed. They have surpluses.
Hiding the wait times is the key here. And they did it on a grand scale. It is criminal behavior period full stop because veterans have died.
How on earth can I tell you who screwed up on presenting the budgets to Congress? Or how can I determine why they were hiding wait times and getting bonuses for running " smooth "operations.
They've gotten every dime they've asked for. This is why an IG is on the case.
Let's get to the bottom of this before coming to a conclusion before any of us, both right and left wingers, know the FACTS.
there should be no REASON for these administrators to have to create these phony secret lists in order to receive a bonus, they should be able to receive their bonuses due to having short wait times among MANY other things.... you do know that wait times if they were even part of their bonus structure, were a small part of it....it wasn't the ONLY thing ranked to see if they qualified for a bonus, right? And personally, I see no reason why wait time reduction should not be a part of the admins bonus structure....so the concept is not faulty.....if this were a private organization, I can see "reducing wait times" as one of the admin's bonus criteria to meet....
the fact that some of these (sub humans imo) admins decided to cheat for the sole purpose of their own financial greed, at the expense of veteran's lives is a separate issue.