One whistleblower has a way of encouraging others, and we’ve had several reach out regarding VA facilities in New England. Our Manchester VA whistleblower inspired this latest report from a new whistleblower who says they are sick of the poor leadership.
The New England VA appears to be spending your money on “gatherings” when it has more pressing issues.
Currently the entire VA is basically insolvent. VA Maine has a deficit of $7M, Manchester $22M. White River Junction $48M. VA Boston $95M. VA Bedford $13M. Hiring is at a standstill as the VISN director tries to figure out how to find the money to solve the deficit. Veterans are being sent to the community for care. And where are the VA Hospital Directors and over 100 Nursing leaders today and tomorrow? They are all at a retreat in Portland Maine burning taxpayer money that could be used for veteran care.
“Today” was Thursday, and ‘Tomorrow” is today (Friday, March 15th).
It is cute how they ask you to keep the travel costs down, which reminds me of something I like to say when someone in my family says they can get 30% off some purchase. I know how you could save another 70%.
If you’d like to put that into perspective, we (as a nation) are spending billions to fly illegal aliens into the country and then house them in hotels that many of us might not be able to afford to stay in ourselves for more than a few days.
We are sending tens of billions overseas for every manner of so-called national interest, but housing and caring for veterans take a back seat to these priorities.
No one reading this is likely surprised by the news, so the question has to be, are we so used to it that we are numb?
The contact stated that they also have monthly leadership meetings at your expense in Portland, Maine, or in Portsmouth, NH.
How does this square fit with VA guidelines for necessary travel?
More from our latest VA whistleblower:
The issue isn’t whether the travel is legal. Maybe it meets the criteria, but when hospitals aren’t hiring first-line nurses, clerks, and doctors, the optics of a couple of hundred “leaders” making a retreat in Maine is bad.
It does look bad. It is also how government-controlled health care looks. To which they’ll say, well – we have to have these meetings to fix all the problems. I’m sure this isn’t your first such gathering, so how has that worked out for Veterans and taxpayers?
Zoom meetings, anyone?
