“This debacle continues to be run out in the news cycle…albeit taking a back seat to the Bergdahl debacle for now. Major systemic malfeasance took place in the VA and I imagine that this will continue to be a major issue going forward, to the chagrin of Bernie Sanders and Paul Krugman who have suggested for years that the VA is socialized medicine at its finest. Look for the VA to be a proxy referendum on Obamacare come election season,” writes my friend Matt Tyrmand at Open the Books.
Take a look at the top salary earners at the Department of Veterans Affairs as cataloged by Open the Books.