Tales from the DOG Patch: Numero Deux

A tip of the hat to Dr. Roy Poses, who did a nice job summarizing the first blast from the DOG Patch. (For those who missed it, it ' s a distillate of all the dander we ' ve mustered in recent health policy debates as they veer more and more toward the utterly surreal.) Danderomnium gatherum, hurled willy-nilly at the gentle readers of HCRenewal. Ready or not, another dispatch from the DOG Patch.Dr. Shulkin at the VA.We commented on the recentposting, also from Dr. Poses, dealing with VA Secretary David Shulkin ' s " apparently scandalous travel " to Europe way back in July. We ' ve known Shulkin for a long time. He cares about good government but you ' d never know that from his own OIG ' s hatchet job charging " serious derelictions. " A lot of this is in the above linked post, as well as related articles in most newspapers. Today however welearn from John Kelly that the secretary ' s " job is safe. " Unless, that is, " other stuff comes out. " One of the better Trump appointees, Shulkin now gets to walk the tightrope while political hacks lower down in the VA try to undermine him. His crime: Seemingly dragging his heels on doing himself out of a job. Lots of folks (viz. White House insider and Wisconsin brewmaster Jake Leinenkugel) looking to privatize VA health care. Shulkin understands the great value--despite the many depredations and flaws still enormously popular with its patients--of the institution that began with the Philadelphia Naval Home around the War of 1812. ...
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