{"id":18060,"date":"2010-03-18T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:49:59","slug":"speaking-of-the-dva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18060","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the DVA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> does a story on the VA’s Office of the Inspector General’s internal investigation of DVA’s claims processing;<\/p>\n

The internal watchdog for the Veterans Affairs Department says VA medical centers need to give compensation and pension medical exams to veterans sooner in order to expedite disability claims.<\/p>\n

It says some veterans wait months longer than necessary for disability claims because getting the exams takes so long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, no shit! I. Never. Knew. That. How much money to get to that level of brilliance?<\/p>\n

At a facility in Roseburg, Ore., the IG found hundreds of requests for an exam tucked in file cabinets so a timeliness quota could be met. And it found claims at an outpatient clinic in Winston-Salem, N.C., were processed out of order to also help with the quota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How many stories of this type of incompetence and intentional malfeasance have we suffered in the last few years? <\/p>\n

The chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Daniel Akaka, says the VA needs to devote more resources to fixing the problem. The VA has told the inspector general it will do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, well, I feel much better now. Shinseki promised an improvement in veterans’ services back in January last year<\/a>. He promised changes<\/a> in the DVA. As recnetly as last month, he promised he’d improve the system. But you know what – just last week, Shinseki finally agreed with Congress that he needs to “prioritize reform<\/a>“. Isn’t that something he should have done last year before he took office? I’m no MBA grad, but it seems to me like you can’t reform anything until the reforms are prioritized. Fucking brain dead morons.<\/p>\n

You know, I’m pretty sure that reforming a big bureaucratic dinosaur is a tough job that takes a long time, but after watching the media hammer the Bush Administration (who doubled the funding for veterans in the first three years in office) for every streak they found on a hospital window, where the fuck are these watchdogs now?<\/p>\n

I don’t envy Shinseki for the task he’s committed himself to, but shouldn’t he at least act like he’s trying to do something instead of whacking his meat for Congress every couple of months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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