| GOOD OL' BOY NETWORK IN FULL PLAY AS DR. JAMES PEAKE IS NOMINATED AS VA SECRETARY -- Peake is now chief medical director and chief operating officer of QTC Management Inc., which provides VA C&P examination services. Former VA Secretary Anthony Principi is Chairman of the QTC board. This is exactly what veterans DON'T need! A few minutes after this posting...President Bush will nominate Dr. James Peake as VA Secretary. Peake ran the Army's failed healthcare system. Now, he is an executive with QTC, the company headed by former VA Secretary Anthony Principi. QTC, after Principi resigned, received a VA contract for C&P exams that will be worth over a billion dollars. For more about QTC, use the VA Watchdog search engine... click here... Peake has been part of the problem at the highest levels while serving as Surgeon General of the Army. This is just another "pat on the ass" for another good ol' boy. Veterans lose all the way around with this nomination. We have a brief AP news story and a press release from Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Following that is Peake's bio provided by QTC. Story here... |
How do I feel? Yes, I'm pissed off! Not only for me, who relies on the VA system of healthcare but for all the returning Veterans who will desperately need the best care. The truth indeed hurts... it's more of the same bullshit from the bu$h administration! Another penny pinching, crony appointed... veteran's get the shaft... what's new! I'm sure we can expect this screwball to try and privatize the V.A. even more.
It was a bit much to expect different!
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Vets are getting shafted more than Las Vegas hookers.
Seriously, one of Bush's many legacies will be his unforgivable treatment of veterans from a war that he chose to initiate and that he chose to never try to end. I'm so sorry that you and the hundreds of thousands like you are considered second-class citizens by the very leaders that you swore to trust and follow.
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