Derrick Van Orden: “They can go to the civilian world and get paid more, because…”

“Or the fact that we are having difficulty hiring and retaining. Doctors and nurses and nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors. We're having across the board issues hiring and retaining these people because They can go to the civilian world and get paid more, because we're wasting billions of dollars. So being able to apply the monies that are literally wasted, that have boldly crossed from incompetence to malfeasance to corruption, was wiping that out.” (11:17–11:24)

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