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>> exactly. there were v.a. employees that were zeroing out wait times in order to earn performance bonuses or appease managers. >> are we pretty certain that now we have a realistic picture at least on how bad things are or is there still folks cooking the books as far as you all can tell? >> we havent seen any evidence that there are still folk cooking the books but we have seen a gap between what veterans perceive their wait types to be and what v.a. reports they are. and thats a credit to th...

100% of senior management in the va system, systemwide received a positive job review. $10 million to phoenix in bonuses, $400 million systemwide for performance bonuses. you have to stop that. this whistle blower said she was told to take a picture of people who were on a waiting list and put it in the desk because it wasnt going to get on the waiting list. she said she had literally thousands of pieces of paper. its a failure of management. theres plenty of money there. they just need the righ...

100% of senior management in the va system, systemwide received a positive job review. $10 million to phoenix in bonuses, $400 million systemwide for performance bonuses. you have to stop that. this whistle blower said she was told to take a picture of people who were on a waiting list and put it in the desk because it wasnt going to get on the waiting list. she said she had literally thousands of pieces of paper. its a failure of management. theres plenty of money there. they just need the righ...

100% of senior management in the va system, systemwide received a positive job review. $10 million to phoenix in bonuses, $400 million systemwide for performance bonuses. you have to stop that. this whistle blower said she was told to take a picture of people who were on a waiting list and put it in the desk because it wasnt going to get on the waiting list. she said she had literally thousands of pieces of paper. its a failure of management. theres plenty of money there. they just need the righ...

Veterans affairs held a hearing today in which they were discussing the bonuses that v.a. managers get. turns out the v.a. gives out $400 million a year in performance bonuses and that while as we now know thousands of vets were waiting to get in to even be able to see a doctor. 6 5% of the senior workforce got bonuses for their good work. kirsten? 100% of senior managers net their goals. >> yeah. it doesnt look good. and i think there is nothing wrong with giving performance bonuses. on oously,...

Obama do now? >> well, president obama wants to be reassured that general shinseki can can fix this problem and he has laid out some of the first concrete steps that we have heard about how to fix it. no performance bonuses for the le leadership of the v.a., and he is going to stop giving performance bonuses based on how long the wait times are so that there is not an incentive to fudge the numbers and make it look like the wait times are shorter than they r and he wants to make it easier that h...

He said he initiated removal of the senior leaders at the phoenix facility. no performance bonuses this year for senior va executives and he says patient times will no longer factor into employee evaluations. whats your take? >> my take is good steps that should have been taken a long time ago. i just listened to that one more time. im struck that hes apologizing to members in congress who have supported him. if he listened to members in congress who had pointed this out to him for the last year...

They ration care, they say you need to wait months, in some cases years. >> well give you the free care but youre going to have to wait to get it. and when the veterans, the recipients understand that theyre having to wait a long time the incentive for the bureaucracy is cover it up, dont report it. >> this is inherent to government controlled health care. this is the future of obama care policy. you want to see where our naturalized health care system is headed, look at the va system, where we ...

>> well give you the precare, but youre going to have to wait to get it. >> thats right. >> and then when the people understandab understandably, the veterans understandably complain theyre having to wait a long time, the incentive for the bureaucracy, jason, is covered up. dont report it. >> right. and this is inherent to government controlled health care. and its helpful were having this conversation in the middle of a proout of obamacare. because this is the future of albuquerq obamacare. you...

Time now for hits and misses of the week. colin, first to you. >> paul, it looks like the irs is feeling pretty great about its performance for taxpayers, since it turns out that between 2010 and 2012, 2800 irs employees who had recently been disciplined also got performance bonuses, totaling about $2.8 million. so you know, the media has been pretty busy yawning about lois lern lerners role, directors role in the targeting of conservative groups. so i guess we should probably give the irs a hit...