Should the VA be held accountable for its performance?

2015-05-18T14:52:05-04:00

The VA Accountability Act of 2015 seeks to do just that. Follow the link to get specifics on the bill.

More importantly, contact your representatives and ask them to sponsor HR 1994.

Together we can set the VA up for success by allowing them to be held accountable!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1994/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22HR+1994%22%5D%7D&pageSort=alpha

Cosponsors - H.R.1994 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): VA Accountability Act of 2015 | Congress.gov...

Cosponsors of H.R.1994 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): VA Accountability Act of 2015

Response by CPT Bob Moore made May 18 at 2015 2:53 PM

2015-05-18T14:53:13-04:00

The VA should have always been accountable for their actions. It was the lack of accountability that caused the issues in the first place.

Whether leaders hold those under them accountable or not, the leader is always accountable for what happens. "I didn't know" is not an acceptable defense.

Response by LTC Gavin Heater made May 18 at 2015 2:55 PM

2015-05-18T14:55:17-04:00

Accountability and transparency in health care, especially for our Nation's Veterans is well overdue. This will need strict monitoring to work, but it seems like a start in the right direction.

Response by SGM Private RallyPoint Member made May 18 at 2015 3:03 PM

2015-05-18T15:03:55-04:00

Capt Clement--EVERYONE should be accountable for their performance. Not just the VA. That is part of what is wrong with modern society. We want the other fellow to be accountable, not us.

Response by SFC Robert Wheeler made May 18 at 2015 3:18 PM

2015-05-18T15:18:22-04:00

Having been employed by the VA in the past, they need to do much more than that. In addition to accountability, they need to break up the mini-empires that exists in the VA.

Response by CMDCM Richard Moon made May 18 at 2015 5:21 PM

2015-05-18T17:21:39-04:00

Ultimately, until the voter holds the politicians who control the appropriations, who draft and enforce the regulations and who write the legislation which becomes law - no federal agency will ever be held accountable for what it does wrong or poorly. I'm a huge fan of Max Webers philosophy on increasing rationalization. In a nutshell, bureaucratization increases, the services become more centralized and one-size fits all and fewer people are generally satisfied or served well by it. It should be held accountable, yes. It won't and can't in general. People just don't care enough, which in mu mind screams "Get rid of it" and replace it with access to health care anywhere else. That too will never happen as the benign neglect of the system will never relinquish it's hold on it's appropriations.

Response by Sgt Branden W. made May 18 at 2015 5:49 PM

2015-05-18T17:49:35-04:00

I start work at the VA in less than a month as a Veterans Service Rep. I look forward to invoking positive change.

Response by SFC Joseph McCausland made Oct 17 at 2015 6:34 PM

2015-10-17T18:34:17-04:00

In its' present state the VA is "too big", "too civilianized" "too political" and "too unionized".
As long as we ignore this dominating factors, the system will remain unchanged and our Veterans will be the ones to bear the consequences of "business as usual" while the "system" and "unions" protect those who are blatantly incompetent yet dictate to others, programs, and procedures that have little chance of success.