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VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
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RE: VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
(May 26, 2014 at 1:58 pm)A Theist Wrote:
(May 26, 2014 at 12:06 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Sure, Min. is crude and tactless in his delivery of his points. But A Theist has staunchly defended an ignorant cowboy that lied us into two disastrous wars that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, wiped his ass with the constitution by siging the Patriot Act and eliminating Habeus Corpus, and nearly brought down the global economny by allowing his Wall Street cronies to rape the American middle class. Then he has the gall to slouch in here and shamlelessly use a scandal in which the veterans he supposedly cares so much about were disgustingly mistreated as a cheap ploy to call us hypocrites based on nothing more than the fact that no one had brought the scandal up yet. That is comparable to Min. calling people "Republicunts?"

I don't think so.

No. I just call out your deflection to Bush everytime a scandal arises that could potentially harm the democrats....and talk about gall, it takes even more gall for some of you guys to come on the forums and exploit teen and child victims of gun violence just to push your anti-second amendment agenda. Then you guys launch into rants about gun owning racist red neck white guys. Yeah, you're one to talk about cheap ploys. So you're saying that there's been no corruption and no gross mismanagement at the VA....and that this is something that we should just ignore?

I don't think so either.

It is kind of crazy. George Bush hasn't been in office for 7 years, but whenever the Obama administration screws up (say in this issue) he somehow still gets blamed for everything. I wonder how many decades it'll be until that excuse becomes invalid.
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RE: VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
(May 26, 2014 at 12:46 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Let's do some math on the bonuses:
Quote:In 2012, physicians practicing primary care received total median annual compensation of $220,942 and physicians practicing in medical specialties received total median annual compensation of $396,233.
REF: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile...rgeons.htm

Assuming median pay for only one year, $8.8 million is:
39 primary care providers
Or
22 specialists


Assuming 4 year tenures minimum:
9 primary care providers
5 specialists


8.8$ million is 0.005% of the 157.2 billion $ budget.

In other words, the bonuses, while probably undeserved, are noise.

Useless diverting noise.
$8.8 million in bonuses at seven facilities in the course of just two years...

Quote:Now, at least seven VA centers are being investigated for “secret” waiting lists. Here are the bonuses into these troubled facilities (2011-2013):

1. Edward Hines, JR Hospital, Cook County, IL ($4.1356 million)
2. Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL ($575,400)
3. New Mexico VA Health Care System Albuquerque, NM ($2.646 million)
4. Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Home, Biloxi, MS ($247,103)
5. Miami VA Healthcare System Miami, FL ($334,987)
6. Fort Collins Outpatient Clinic, Fort Collins, CO ($4,150)
7. Phoenix VA Health Care System Home, Phoenix, AZ ($843,000)

TOTAL: 12,549 bonuses for $8.787 million (2011-2013)......

The list of facilities now under investigation has ballooned to 26 and counting, so these estimates likely do little more than scratch the surface. And they only span two years. Remember, bonuses aren’t a mere sideshow in this scandal, as several media outlets have reported that some of the VA administrators who cooked the books on wait times were motivated by avarice. Their maneuvers were, in part, a job- and bonus-protection scheme – which is why Senate Democrats’ endorsement of inaction, as Ed put it earlier, is so galling.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/23/re...ince-2011/

Useless noise? Bullshit. The investigation's just starting.

(May 26, 2014 at 2:08 pm)Chas Wrote: I call bullshit. The VA has been fucked up for decades. Nothing new here - move along,, folks.

Here we go. Min's little brother harps in. Yeah the VA's been screwed up for decades as Barack acknowledged and promised to fix during his 2008 presidential campaign. Yeah, he fixed it alright.
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#53
RE: VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
(May 26, 2014 at 2:23 pm)A Theist Wrote:
(May 26, 2014 at 2:08 pm)Chas Wrote: I call bullshit. The VA has been fucked up for decades. Nothing new here - move along,, folks.

Here we go. Min's little brother harps in.

Fuck you.
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Yeah the VA's been screwed up for decades as Barack acknowledged and promised to fix during his 2008 presidential campaign. Yeah, he fixed it alright.

Tell me of any president ever who did everything he said he was going to do.

You are an idiot.
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#54
RE: VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
Actually, he DID act to fix it, he provided more funding and instated a few other measures, which actually did address a lot of the issues with wait times, though it wasn't entirely enough, and with the ongoing wars, more and more veterans were being added to the rosters, which meant a greater need for funding...which hasn't been added. Sanders wanted to address that. Republicans refused. Now we have admins gaming the system to protect their jobs and bonuses because their facilities over the last two years haven't been increased to deal with the rising numbers. More I think about it, the more convinced I become that this outcome could easily have been avoided.
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RE: VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
(May 26, 2014 at 2:40 pm)Chas Wrote:
(May 26, 2014 at 2:23 pm)A Theist Wrote: Here we go. Min's little brother harps in.

Fuck you.
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Yeah the VA's been screwed up for decades as Barack acknowledged and promised to fix during his 2008 presidential campaign. Yeah, he fixed it alright.

Tell me of any president ever who did everything he said he was going to do.

You are an idiot.

Well shit! Pardon me all to hell! I guess that lets Barack off the hook then.

You're a dumbass.
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Quote:It was an awful mistake to characterize based upon religion. I should not judge any theist that way, I must remember what I said in order to change.
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RE: VA Scandal Rocks Obama Administration
(May 26, 2014 at 2:45 pm)A Theist Wrote:
(May 26, 2014 at 2:40 pm)Chas Wrote: Fuck you.

Tell me of any president ever who did everything he said he was going to do.

You are an idiot.

Well shit! Pardon me all to hell! I guess that lets Barack off the hook then.

You're a dumbass.

No, it just puts your childish whining into perspective.
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