The People's Cube - Political Satire

VA Deputy Administrator Bill Lumbergh announced new rules designed to improve conditions at overtaxed Veteran's Affairs medical facilities nationwide.

When asked about the new regulations Dep. Admin. Lumbergh replied, "Doctors and other workers involved in providing actual health care to our veterans have long complained of having to deal with all of the red tape instead of being able to efficiently care for their patients, stating multiple layers of management with often redundant paperwork and unnecessary communications. If we could get the physicians to use the new additional care system it would be great."

After seeing their effort at streamlining operations at software giant Initech, the Department Of Veteran's Affairs has hired efficiency experts Bob Slydell and Bob Porter to initiate the new Timely Patient Service, or TPS reporting system.

Bob Slydell: "To remind healthcare providers of the need for timely service, TPS reports will now be completed and attached by the attending physicians to all new urgent requests for care, especially in critical, life threatening situations."

When asked about possible compliance concerns Mr. Porter said, "Memos will be emailed from the various administrative personnel tasked with overseeing TPS compliance, to the doctors, and to hardworking folks like Administrative Assistant Tom Smykowski."

Smykowski noted, "Sometimes doctors don't have the people skills needed, so I take the TPS reports, attach them to the patient's folder, and place them back in the bulk patient folder holding area, or BPFHAA, for subsequent timely processing".

So Comrade PotLuckSupper, according to Smykowski, he takes the TPS reports, attaches them to the patient's folder and places them in the bulk patient folder holding area or the BPFHAA, giving the logical conclusion, wouldn't the CN include the CMTA which would make the ADL, the MAR along with the TPS which with the DPSI be attached to the CMED and that would also be combined with the BPFHAA. If this is the case then the DPCPSI would be mandated to have a copy to support the ELSI at the VA as well. It just goes to show you how this would streamline things.

in triplicate.

It's about time! Closing the "paperwork loophole" is like welding the last plate of armor onto a tank. Now the bureaucracy is safely tucked away inside an impenetrable ring of paper.

Captain Craptek wrote:It's about time! Closing the "paperwork loophole" is like welding the last plate of armor onto a tank. Now the bureaucracy is safely tucked away inside an impenetrable ring of paper.

Not quite, Comrade Squirrel. There is still lacking a Paperwork Reduction Plan (PRP) report on how TPS and other required actions have accomplished said reduction. This report must be sent to all participating agencies for endorsements before being added to BPFHAA.

And do not forget the cover routing sheet. This too must be added to BPFHAA. And the BPFHAA annotated to show that it has been added.

RedDiaperette wrote:

Captain Craptek wrote:It's about time! Closing the "paperwork loophole" is like welding the last plate of armor onto a tank. Now the bureaucracy is safely tucked away inside an impenetrable ring of paper.

Not quite, Comrade Squirrel. There is still lacking a Paperwork Reduction Plan (PRP) report on how TPS and other required actions have accomplished said reduction. This report must be sent to all participating agencies for endorsements before being added to BPFHAA.

And do not forget the cover routing sheet. This too must be added to BPFHAA. And the BPFHAA annotated to show that it has been added.

Good point, comrade. And your observation only underscores one of Dear Leader's favorite Marxist progressive banalities; "There's more work to be done!"*

*Isn't there always - and forever?

Fhalkyn wrote:"Sign here... and here... and here... don't read that... sign here... hey, I said ignore that bit... sign this... and this... dude, what did I tell you about not reading that?"

Ah yes... the old Radar O'Riley method of doing things.... reminds me of the time when Colonel Blake asked him, "Radar, do you really understand all of this stuff?" And the reply was, "I try not to, sir, it slows down the war"....