TAKE A DEEP BREATH: For V.A. Health Care Hotshot, Allowing Ailing Vets to Die Apparently Pays

By Norvell Rose
2:26 pm May 21, 2014

This outrageous health care scandal rocking the Veterans Administration gets even more outlandish by the day. If you can stomach this — what can I say without cursing? — this unbelievable violation of our military, then read this from The Weekly Standard:
The director of the Phoenix VA hospital where 40 veterans died while waiting for care received an $8,500 bonus last month, according to Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Sharon Helman, the director of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, ”got an $8,500 bonus last month while there was an open [inspector general] investigation into Phoenix,” Chairman Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview Wednesday.
It had been previously reported that Helman received more than $9,000 in bonus pay in 2013 on top of her annual salary of $169,900. The VA office of inspector general began investigating the Phoenix VA for wrongdoing in December 2013, months before Helman received the additional $8,500 bonus.
This on a day when President Obama goes on national television to say how upset, how angry, how darn P-O’d he is about the exploding V.A. scandal. And he really means to get to the bottom of it…right after he finishes his next fundraising tour and a few rounds of golf.

http://www.libertynews.com/2014/05/f...hat-too-harsh/