The top two GOP lawmakers involved in Veterans Administration issues have asked the Trump regime to spare the hiring freeze Trump wants at VA. They cite thousands of vacancies already there before the freeze.

QuoteSen. Johnny Isakson (R., Ga.) and Rep. Phil Roe (R., Tenn.), who chair the Committees on Veterans Affairs in their respective chambers, wrote a letter to Trump on Thursday asking him to provide "guidance indicating that exempting VA direct patient care providers is consistent with the tenants of and latitude permitted" in the executive order he issued on Monday ordering a hiring freeze on federal civilian employees.

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"As you have rightfully recognized many times before, the VA healthcare system is currently in a state of crisis," Isakson and Roe wrote. "We must ensure that, while we work toward our mutual goal of VA health care reform, VA is not further hampered by an inability to recruit high-quality clinicians to meet the immediate health care needs of our veterans."

There are currently over 547,000 patients waiting more than 30 days for care at VA hospitals, according to the most recent data published by the agency.

Trump made reforming the VA a focal point of his presidential campaign. The president has selected David Shulkin, a physician who served as the VA's undersecretary for health during the Obama administration, to serve as VA secretary.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/leading-republicans-ask-trump-to-exempt-va-direct-providers-from-hiring-freeze/

That swamp is fifty years past due. The Puerto Rico firings are only a start.

Sorry Johnny and phil, it's called inspection time, where we inventory and do employee assessments.
It's exactly how business has worked since, like, well forever...
So STFU, and get to work and give me something I can work with beyond a bunch of whining..

Quote from: Solar on January 27, 2017, 06:16:04 AM
Sorry Johnny and phil, it's called inspection time, where we inventory and do employee assessments.
It's exactly how business has worked since, like, well forever...
So STFU, and get to work and give me something I can work with beyond a bunch of whining..

Inventory / assessment can easily be done ... but who empties the bedpans? The whole place is unionized and no physicians assistant or nurse will do the tasks most needed NOW. Ask yourself: in America if a better job elsewhere comes along, what do you do? And if that doesn't describe 100% of the attendants in hospitals and clinics across our PLANET...then what does?

The blistering-cold fact here is, the junior people bailed almost as fast as anyone with a sense of ethics.

Take all the time needed to review the brass. The vets lying in their own excrement will thank you if that freeze does NOT include their closest, immediate helpers.

Quote from: quiller on January 27, 2017, 07:45:34 AM
Inventory / assessment can easily be done ... but who empties the bedpans? The whole place is unionized and no physicians assistant or nurse will do the tasks most needed NOW. Ask yourself: in America if a better job elsewhere comes along, what do you do? And if that doesn't describe 100% of the attendants in hospitals and clinics across our PLANET...then what does?

The blistering-cold fact here is, the junior people bailed almost as fast as anyone with a sense of ethics.

Take all the time needed to review the brass. The vets lying in their own excrement will thank you if that freeze does NOT include their closest, immediate helpers.

Restructuring in the image of a normal business industry is one where all employees share in duties that make the business function.
Granted, there are specialized services in hospitals, but none so important they can't pitch in and help out along the way.
Standing behind the counter, no one to assist? Get off your worthless fat ass and help a nurse out making beds, fetching warm blankets etc.
Problem with VA, is they have redundant positions, some easily eliminated, I know, I see it every time I go.

Considering how hard it is for a government employee to be fired and the amount of people employed in these failing bureaucracies I say shut the f**k up and let the plug be pulled.

If the VA wasn't working with too many people why can't it work with less people who actually care?