Return to Article: VA Secretary nominee gets favorable Senate hearing
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yes sir just what the VA needs another yes man, why is always a retired gen or adm that runs things I guess when they were on active duty those nice offices and officers clubs wearn't enough, now they need to be a in charge type and really screw things up for the vet.Put some one in there that understands what vet's are putting up with.
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I hope he sincerely looks at his management staff as opposed to just taking on the legacies from past failure appointees. Upper management has not been very fair or open minded to VA staff or to VA staffing. We all work hard and we all need to play just as hard.
Second: VA staff doesn't work with the normal sick civilian patients. Our vets have much more compounded and vastly different injuries or illnesses. The simple diabetic is easy until you throw in Agent Orange exposure with war time memories. What maybe needed in VA is more medical staff that has served time in the military and not in a classroom or at a computer screen. Real time experiences are called for, was it hot in Vietnam? did you get a hot meal in Iraq? is Afghanistan as brutally cold as Maine or did you really get frostbite in Korea? A medical provider that has lived some of the experiences will have a better approach to a vet and his family as to why he needs further help and what assistance can be offered. Hand holding does not cut it with a combat vet. they are use to the brutality of a situation and in most cases can accept the outcome, but placating someone is never the right answer.
So Retired Lt. General James Peake, I hope you can live up to challenges of politics and caring for the sick and injured and broken.
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another yes man for the administration. He comes from the same company our old secretary is now working for. One that is doing the claims exams instead of our own workers. we'll see what happens with another "decorated army officer" in charge.
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