Trump hiring freeze includes the short-staffed VA

Theyve been short staffed the entire time

Im pretty sure theyd make an exception if a doctor decudes yo work at the VA

>After Spicer's remarks, the VA said it planned to take advantage of the hiring freeze's allowances for public safety needs.

>"The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to exempt anyone it deems necessary for public safety, including frontline caregivers," Acting VA Secretary Robert Snyder said in a statement.


>USA TODAY has reported on the massive bureaucracy between top-line leaders like Shulkin and front-line care providers that has slowed some improvements in the VA since the scandal broke in 2014 with revelations that schedulers in Phoenix had kept secret wait lists masking how long veterans had been waiting for appointments and at least 40 died while waiting.

>The VA is one of the largest agencies in the federal government with more than 350,000 employees. The agency provides veterans with death, disability and education benefits, as well as health care at more 1,200 medical facilities that serve nearly 9 million veterans each year.

>A liberal veterans group that slammed Trump during the campaign seized on the hiring freeze. In a statement earlier Tuesday, VoteVets senior adviser Peter Kauffmann said that if it applied to the VA, it would be the "ultimate insult to our men and women who serve to deny them the additional doctors, nurses, therapists, and administrators that are sorely needed at the VA.”

“>If his (order) leads to preventable deaths, that will be on Donald Trump’s hands, and we will hold him personally accountable,” Kauffmann said.

>>103683

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

>Trump faces massive challenge in cleaning up 'toxic' VA

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/25/trump-faces-massive-challenge-in-cleaning-up-toxic-va.html

>Between his vows to replace ObamaCare, build a border wall and renegotiate trade pacts, President Trump’s inbox is mighty full his first week in office.

>But one of the biggest challenges will be the Department of Veterans Affairs, where massive problems persist – many in the same hospital that was the epicenter of the waiting-list scandal that rocked the agency, and shocked the public, in 2014.

>“Until Congress passes strong accountability measures, VA employees from top to bottom will have little incentive to change this toxic culture,” said Mark Lucas, executive director of Concerned Veterans for America, a veterans’ advocacy group.

>A recent survey of employees at the Phoenix facility reported employees have little confidence in the integrity of their supervisors -- findings Lucas called “unsurprising.” Two government audits also found little improvement and costly inefficiencies in the agency as a whole.

>Trump, who vowed during the campaign to overhaul the scandal-scarred department, has nominated Dr. David Shulkin, a VA undersecretary in the Obama administration, to take over.

>If confirmed, Shulkin and Trump together will confront problems that extend well beyond morale issues.

>The Government Accountability Office for the third year reportedly will place the VA health system on its “high risk” list when it’s released in February, because of continued problems of waste, fraud or mismanagement. The forthcoming report will say the VA has showed “only limited progress” since the scandal erupted.

>The VA Office of Inspector General also reported earlier this month that in 2015, the VA awarded more than $177 million in improper relocation or retention bonuses based on inaccurate information to 238 different employees, many of them executives. The report blamed the VA for “ineffective oversight processes to ensure compliance,” and “ineffective procedures to recoup funds from individuals with outstanding recruitment and relocation incentive service obligations.”

>And the January survey of employees at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix – which has had seven directors since 2014 revelations about VA officials falsifying patient wait times as some died waiting for care – found fewer than one-third of employees feel their supervisors have integrity or that whistleblowers would be protected.

>Trump’s 10-point plan to reform the VA included firing bad employees; creating a special commission to investigate cover-ups; and ensuring veterans have the option of VA vouchers for private health care.

>The department clearly is still high risk. Yet some of Trump’s goals already are in the process of being realized, said Joe Chenille, executive director for the veterans advocacy group AmVets.

>“We have gone from 19 percent getting care from outside sources, paid for by the VA, to 31 percent,” Chenelly told Fox News. “My prediction is a surge of people will want care outside the system.”

>Shulkin, who has experience as a hospital CEO, came to the agency with now-former VA Secretary Bob McDonald to make reforms after the scandal, and has the confidence right now of the Trump administration.

>“Dr. Shulkin is a nationally-recognized turnaround artist, health care leader, and passionate veterans advocate who is eager to transform the VA and will be able to do so in the Trump administration,” Trump spokesman David White said. “If confirmed, Dr. Shulkin will be ready on day one to enact President Trump’s 10-point plan to end mismanagement and incompetence at the VA, and ensure our veterans get the timely, quality care and support they deserve.”

>A VA spokeswoman declined to comment and deferred to the Trump team.

>A new VA secretary isn’t enough, though, said Lucas of the CVA.

>“These are problems that arose as a result of a system that is set up to fail, a system no one leader can change without meaningful reforms from Congress,” Lucas said. “The VA needs to be transparent with veterans and taxpayers about its performance and how money is being spent. But most importantly, veterans deserve to be empowered with choice over where and when to see a doctor.”

>In September, RimaAnn Nelson, became the seventh director of the Phoenix veterans health system since the 2014 scandal. Nelson is no stranger to other VA controversies. She previously was director of the St. Louis system, where an inspector general report determined 1,812 patients were potentially exposed to hepatitis and HIV infections because of breaches in cleaning and sterilization of medical equipment.

I don't get why none of Trump's opponents hammered down on the fact that he clearly doesn't respect the people in the military. He basically called John McCain a pussy for having been a POW and he said that if the military refused to commit war crimes he would force them to do it. All this while being a draft dodger.

>>103680
>leftists spend years burying reports about all the problems at the VA
>leftists suddenly care about the VA and blame Trump for staffing issues

It would be nice if these people actually cared about things beyond their political usefulness.

Oh well. Once an establishment serf, always an establishment serf.

>>103758

People did criticize him for that, none of it stuck. The people who support Trump will NEVER admit any fault, then they cheered when he said he wanted to bring back torture and familial reprisal.

>>103680
VA is too much of a money sink to be honest; it has to go. Back when America was great, we didn't have a VA agency. Soldiers of the past picked themselves up and became successful on their own without government help. It just goes to show how far our military has fallen that they instill in soldiers values of failure and reliance on government handouts.

>>103859
Don't cut yourself on that edge

>>103767
>>they cheered when he said he wanted to bring back torture and familial reprisal.

>torture
He said that he was in favor of allowing waterbording and sleepdeprivation, which many other rep's don't even recognise as torture.

>>familial reprisal
So girls who are to dumb, even through Sex Ed, to use protection, now have to rely on their parents to pay for abortions instead of billing the US-Taxpayer as a whole.
Good thing, if they have to take responsibility along with the John's who now have to pay childsupport it will help other girls to develop common sense and stop butchering babys because they were to dump to use protection.

>>103758
The people mccain was caputred with said he gave info before even being tortured. Fuck him.

>>103888
>cong is about to cut off your left nut
>you really like having both nuts around
>give info to prevent getting left nut cutoff
>congs still beat the shit out of you
>get called a pussy anyway
Sounds like a good time

>>103898
they weren't going to do jack shit to him, they knew who his dad was

>>103879
Familial reprisal means going after the families of those accused of terrorism.

Familial = family
Reprisal =retaliation

>>103904
Well if you raise a terrorist than you should be kicked out of the country along with the terrorist. I don't see a problem here.

If you go free without any punishment then you can just raise more terrorists. That is bad for the whole country.

>>103926
It means killing their families and not just the terrorist, even if they are innocent.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/

It's against the Geneva Convention, but I doubt that matters much to you.

>>103933
Not really. The Geneva Convention is just another hook for the globalist to stick into the US.

>>103933
>but I doubt that matters much to you.

No, Holocausting innocent people is wrong. Absolutely, wrong!
Trump and other Leaders should just evict them to countrys that share their radical islamic believs, so they don't hurt normal people anymore.

>>103888

>The people mccain was caputred with said he gave info before even being tortured.

Oh man it's not like the communists had and currently still have a reason to try and discredit a sitting US senator. Clearly everything they say is the truth.

>they weren't going to do jack shit to him, they knew who his dad was

That just means they can't kill him, because you need him as a bargaining chip. However, it doesn't mean you have to send him back in one piece, and a cutting off a few metaphorical pieces can encourage others to bargain faster.

>>103935

>It's against the Geneva Convention, but I doubt that matters much to you.

Wow he was right, granted that was an easy call.

>>103898
Is that the makings of an American hero? Sounds like a regular fuck to me.
>>103943
>the communists had and currently still have a reason to try and discredit a sitting US senator

If you're going to talk conspiracy lets kerp it factual. Sauce now fuccboi.

>>103943
I have to agree with Trump on Mccain. Mccain was a pussy who got captured. Why should we idolize a looser?