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6. It's all about money.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 08:36 AM
Jun 2014

It takes money and time to hire doctors, nurses and upgrade facilities.

I think the idea is to immediately take care of the veterans that VA facilities have neglected.

Shinseki changed measurement metrics to get folks into the VA quicker. Some assholes at the VA could not meet the metric, so they fudged their results to make their numbers, hence the current 'scandal'.

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