[Adger Smith]

As I read this It is what the VA pays those people that are listed. It has nothing to do with moonlighting at other jobs. I don't think the numbers can be down played by saying they are the total income of a surgeon that works for the VA and other hospitals or Nurses that work their off VA hours as contract PRN or Traveling Nurses at other places. Some of those listed could be contract to the VA, but that listed is what the were paid by the VA. What I find bad is you have to go at least 4 pages before you get numbers that are out of the 200,000 figures. That is a lot of people making a lot of money. It's pretty clear to me, esp after dealing with it, this VA system is broken and it has been for quite a while. I really don't see politics fixing it, either. I know how I would fix it, but My answer isn't PC. To clean it up I would say there would be a lot of the people working for the VA join the list of unemployed and a lot of former talented executives that are on the unemployed list back at work. Maybe the first to go would be those with "O" stickers on their cars.