Originally Posted by Guest

The addition of art work to the medical center grounds has absolutely nothing to do with veterans waiting long periods of time for appointments.

The appointment scandal was caused by a very poor type of performances standards. The performance standards would say that x number of appointments would be made for veterans within a 3 month period for an outstanding performance rating for the Service Director. Actually, there were 2 sets of appointment books - the real one and the one for performance standards.

It has been ongoing for many years and it finally got exposed. It started with the Medical Center Director and stuff runs downhill - so many were implicated.

Not a fault of any President but just an internal VA Human Resources practice that failed miserably.