Return to Article: Move to lift ban on VA competitive sourcing prompts opposition
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It is clear that AFGE, Senator Akaka and, yes, the Veterans groups themselves all believe that the quality of veterans health care should be measured simply by the number of Federal employees in VHA facilites. That of course assumes that there are no budget contraints on veterans health care and no need for any comparable performance measures. Hey, if the veterans groups think its good enough, then it must be good enough. Money spent is a good measure of quality health care and money spent on federal employees is an even better measure of performance. What a geat service the Senator and those groups have done to protect and serve our veterans. Thanks again. Let'em compete - Senator - and let them prove their worth in a clearly commercial activity - they may win - and until they do - you are responsible for the care those veteran receive.
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As a member of the federal workforce, you can believe that it isn't those with 20 years, as the writer put it, who doesn't do what they are paid for, this is all over the government and always has been. By far and large, government employees do more than they are asked in most cases. CRAIG is an example of a politician who slowly, but methodically, makes attempts to destroy the VA and open it all up to public bidding, from healthcare to other benefits which veterans are entitled to. He is a loose nut.
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"The Veterans Affairs Department should not be spending money running competitive sourcing studies when the agency is under a budget crunch" say the oponents of Craig's bill...but what about spending money on employees who have 20 years of service but don't do the work they were hired to do. AFGE spends way too much time and money defending bad employees. Sometimes outsourcing is a way to get the work done. And sometimes the threat of outsourcing is a way to get employees to actually earn their paycheck.
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