The Daily Caller : reported that Tomah VA Head Fired Over Scandal Seeks Health Care Exec Job

5610547Former Tomah VA director Mario DeSanctis, who was fired from the facility in the wake of the Marijuana over-prescription scandal, has been looking hard for a health care executive job over the last month. In one case, which has put the Tomah VA on the map, Marine veteran Jason Simcacoski died on August 30, 2014, from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs, which the inspector general later confirmed. In a series of posts made on his now-deleted LinkedIn profile, DeSanctis stated that he is "Looking for Healthcare Executive Management Opportunities," two years after being unceremoniously fired from the Tomah VA from his position as facility director. DeSanctis did not respond to a request for facebook/" target="_blank">comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation about his recent job search. Employees at the facility, however, did not believe DeSanctis earned the bonus and instead thought he lived in a fantasy land.

Our Costly Addiction to Health Care Jobs

Their American Health Care Act sought to roll back the current health law's Medicaid expansion and cut federal subsidies for private health insurance. Hiring rose even more as coverage expanded in 2014 under the health care law and new federal dollars flowed in. America's huge investment in health care and related jobs hasn't always led to better results for patients, data show. Labor accounts for more than half of the $3.4 trillion spent on American health care, and medical professionals like health aides and nurse practitioners are in high demand. America spent $631 for every man, woman and child on health insurance administration for 2012, compared with $54 in Japan.

A New Act for Health Care Coverage

But health care is a sprawling subject. The next day, Celia Dugger, The Times's health and science editor, put the new team to work. So in January, health reporters and editors from across the paper were pulled together into a new team, led by Ms. Dugger, that's more reflective of how tightly the different threads of health care are knotted together. Kate Zernike, Abby Goodnough and Pam Belluck, members of The Times's new health care reporting team, which had formed only months earlier, had put together a piece that described the surprising history of Medicaid, a program that one in five Americans has come to rely on for health care. Ms. Goodnough and Ms. Zernike began reaching out to legislators who had opposed the bill to find out if the Medicaid cuts had played any role in their decision.


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