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GOOD OL' BOY NETWORK IN FULL PLAY AS DR. JAMES PEAKE IS
NOMINATED AS VA SECRETARY -- Peake is now chief
medical
director and chief operating officer of QTC
Management Inc., which
provides VA C&P examination services. Former VA
Secretary
Anthony Principi is Chairman of the QTC board.
Dr. James Peake
This is exactly what veterans DON'T need!
A few minutes after this posting...President Bush
will nominate Dr. James Peake as VA Secretary.
Peake ran the Army's failed healthcare system.
Now, he is an executive with QTC, the company
headed by former VA Secretary Anthony Principi. QTC, after Principi
resigned, received a VA contract for C&P exams that will be worth over a
billion dollars.
For more about QTC, use the VA Watchdog search
engine...click here...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/ses
search.php?q=qtc&op=and
Peake has been part of the problem at the highest
levels while serving as Surgeon General of the Army.
This is just another "pat on the ass" for another
good ol' boy.
Veterans lose all the way around with this
nomination.
We have a brief AP news story and a press release
from Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs. Following that is Peake's bio provided by QTC.
Story here...
http://ap.google.com/article
/ALeqM5gCkLtIOhLYbLJoIbfGfXjYdH
S-6gD8SJK8981
Story below:
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Bush Chooses Peake for VA Post
By DEB RIECHMANN
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush will nominate Dr. James Peake on Tuesday
to direct the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is strained by the
influx of wounded troops returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Retired Lt. Gen. Peake, 63, the son of a medical services officer and Army
nurse, has spent 40 years in military medicine. He retired from the Army
in 2004 after being lead commander in several medical posts, including
four years as the U.S. Army surgeon general.
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Bush will make his announcement at 1:05 p.m. EDT,
according to administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity
ahead of the announcement.
The president will be joined in the Roosevelt Room with Peake, who is now
chief medical director and chief operating officer of QTC Management Inc.,
which provides government-outsourced occupational health and injury and
disability examination services.
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson stepped down Oct. 1.
Gordon Mansfield, the VA's deputy secretary has been serving as acting
secretary.
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Murray press release came via email...
Press release below:
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Murray Statement on Nomination of Dr. James Peake
to Head VA
"After months of delay, we now have a nominee to head the Department of
Veterans Affairs. The President's lack of leadership on this critical
appointment mirrors his Administration's failure to count the care of our
veterans as a cost of war.
"James Peake has served our nation honorably in military service for over
40 years and I look forward to hearing his plans for service our veterans
at this critical moment in our nation's history.
"Given Dr. Peake's past posts running the Army health care system he will
have serious and significant questions to answer about failed preparations
for our returning wounded warriors. For months we've been hearing horror
stories from Walter Reed and other military care centers and I will want
to know what role, if any, Dr. Peake played in the failures of the system.
"The burden is on Dr. Peake to prove to veterans around the country that
he can be the honest, independent advocate we need to turn the VA around."
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Peake's bio here...
http://www.govern
menthorizons.org/bio_peake.asp
Bio below:
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Dr. James Peake
Chief Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer
QTC Management, Inc.
Dr. James Peake, Lieutenant General, United States Army Medical Corps
(Retired), brings to his position a wealth of experience in the uniformed
and private sectors. He is a 1966 graduate of the United States Military
Academy at West Point, and began his career as an infantry officer. Dr.
Peake worked his way through many important positions. He is a highly
decorated Vietnam veteran where served as platoon leader with the 101st
Airborne Division. After Vietnam, he attended Cornell University Medical
College and became board certified in general and thoracic surgery. His
military and medical career earned his nomination by President George W.
Bush to serve as the 40th Surgeon General of the Army and Commander,
United States Medical Command. He served in this position from 2000 to
2004. More recently, General Peake was Executive Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer of Project Hope, a non-profit international health
foundation with offices and programs in more than 30 different countries
on five continents. Dr. Peake is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons, the American College of Cardiology, and member of the Society of
Thoracic Surgeons. He has been honored with the order of Military Medical
Merit; the "A" Professional Designator; and the Medallion, Surgeon General
of the United States.
His experience on active duty includes military/civilian humanitarian
operations in responding to the Miami / Dade County impact area of
Hurricane Andrew as the commander of the 44th Medical Brigade and Surgeon
to the Joint Task Force Commander. While at Project HOPE he helped to
orchestrate the use of civilian volunteers aboard the Navy Hospital Ship
Mercy as it responded to the Tsunami disaster in Indonesia and also as
part of the Hurricane Katrina response aboard the Hospital Ship Comfort.
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