{"id":54066,"date":"2014-07-21T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54066"},"modified":"2014-07-21T08:15:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:15:02","slug":"obama-team-warned-about-va-wait-times-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54066","title":{"rendered":"Obama Team warned about VA wait times 5 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/20\/white-house-warned-about-antiquated-va-scheduling-\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that they got their hands on a Freedom Of Information Act report that the Obama transition team received when they took the reins of government five years ago which warned that the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs had trouble with wait times for patients. That the data which was being used to pay executive bonuses was easily manipulated. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cVA has been trying \u2014 and failing \u2014 to replace its outpatient scheduling system since 2000, wasting nearly $130 million in the process,\u201d Rep. Jeff Miller, Florida Republican and chairman of the House Committee on Veterans\u2019 Affairs, told The Times when asked about the delays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause VA acquisition officials have proven time and again they are simply too inept to guide the development of a new proprietary appointment-scheduling system in an expedient and cost-effective manner, department leaders need to look at adopting commercial technologies that are being used in the private sector,\u201d Mr. Miller said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is really no surprise. The VA and the Department of Defense can&#8217;t figure out a way to transfer medical records between them electronically. How many billions have been wasted on that program? And that&#8217;s just transferring data &#8211; you know, something that we all do everyday.<\/p>\n<p>The problem at the VA is the culture and the culture won&#8217;t change until they start throwing out the incompetent boobs at the lowest levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that they got their hands on a Freedom Of Information Act report &hellip; <a title=\"Obama Team warned about VA wait times 5 years ago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54066\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Team warned about VA wait times 5 years ago<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}