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Shinseki resigned.

Posted: May 30, 2014

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Makes me wonder... - sm

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How many other of BO's cabinet selections are going to be embroiled in a scandal? Are there any left to go?

Can anyone explain - see inside

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What was the motivation for the hiding of the appointment lists? If this was being done on a local level for some reason, in secret, why was Shinseki to blame? I do not understand this at all. I know that there were long wait times because the VA just plain did not have the capacity. You cannot get blood from a turnip.

What I heard... - sm

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Some people got bonuses because it appeared that everything was on the up and up, i.e., hiding the lists made it appear that all was well.

See Link - Seriously

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My husband is a retired Veteran who has worked at the local VA for decades. He says it's most likely about generating bonuses and keeping up appearances while budgets are being slashed to the bone by the "expletives" like the "expletive" Paul Ayn Rand Ryan (his words). The two wars added to the expansion under Obama to give benefits to Vets with Agent Orange and PTSD claims (which previous administrations made near impossible to collect under), claims soared, but the problem goes all the way back to Vietnam and Kennedy, got really bad under Reagan, better under Clinton and then "stuff" hit the fan under W. Bush because of lots of injuries/casualties from the wars, which only about a third were being accounted for in the numbers being given in the papers.

Obama administration was funding the VA in record amounts and peddling, make that pedaling, as fast as they could to clean up the mess they were handed plus the huge backlog they created by "doing the right thing" by the Agent Orange and PTSD vets....... and then bam, this. But they had no idea about the bogus lists. Obviously the officials in charge were hiding the extent of the problem.

One question...... - sm

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Peddling what? They were selling something? I'm confused here.

"Obama administration was funding the VA in record amounts and peddling as fast as they could to clean up the mess they were handed plus the huge backlog they created by "doing the right thing" by the Agent Orange and PTSD vets....... and then bam, this."

Oops, My Bad: Pedaling - Seriously

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Good catch. I was literally typing that as my DH dictated it..... like going downhill on a runaway bicycle and pedaling as fast as they could.

So did Carney - nm

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nm

Can't blame Carney for that. - NPC

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That's got to be one tough job. I think he was there quite long actually, perhaps longer than most??

i think it strange that he speaks at a meeting in the morning - Truthhurts

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and talked about his plans. “I said when this situation began weeks and months ago, that I thought the problem was limited and isolated because I believed that. I no longer believe it; it is systemic,” he said. “I was too trusting of some, and I accepted as accurate reports that I now know to have been misleading with regard to patient wait times.”

He had insisted that the VA can fix these problems, and said he was already taking several actions. He said he was removing senior leaders at the Phoenix Health Care System, and said he would use all authority available to discipline officials involved.

He called on the Senate to pass a bill giving the VA more authority to quickly discipline and fire officials (which was already passed by the House but the Senate went on vacation before they voted on it). He also said no senior leadership executives would get performance bonuses this year, and said the VA would no longer use patient wait time data as a way of determining whether officials should get a bonus.

He seemed upbeat, then goes to the meeting with the President and all of a sudden, he resigns. I find that very strange. Does Obama think Shinseki's resignation is going to cure the problem? Seems funny that everyone at the head of a scandal goes to a meeting and then they resign. I wonder what goes on in those meetings.

This man loved his country, was a true patriot, and loved the veterans. He did the best he could with what he had to work with and whoever was the one who decided to make it common policy to hide those records in the 26 hospitals should be the one punished, besides those who hid them.

I Totally Agree - SM

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It's just that so many Republicans in Congress immediately began calling for Shinseki's resignation, and then the Democrats started to pile on. The fact is, it's an election year, and many in Congress were more interested in focusing on their own political fortunes rather than focusing on what was best for their constituents.

Seems to be a pattern.

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