Dr. Ronny L. Jackson - Qualified to hold the position Secretary Veterans Affairs?
No other- yes or no.
Budget- approx 200 Billion
Employees - approx 377 K
My opinion- Not qualified
No other- yes or no.
Budget- approx 200 Billion
Employees - approx 377 K
Yes
No
Allegations aside - If true they will kill his nomination
As to the size of the budget, management is management. The size of the budget is irrelevant. I could management the next space launch as long as I had the qualified technical people in the proper and required number of positions, as well as the proper size of budget to accomplish the task, the proper time to accomplish the task, and the authority to do what is needed to accomplish the task.
In regard to the VA specifically: The budget number being the proper size is debatable -- I lean toward not. The time factor is not a factor -- it's an ongoing perpetual effort. The number of qualified people is complicated to determine due to the last item in the list above, the authority to accomplish what needs to be done. There are no Executive Branch members of the Cabinet that have the authority to do what is needed to fix problems and/or to accomplish required tasks due to the inability to control the civilian employees who are unreasonably and overly protected from being responsible for their actions or inaction by both unions and the civil service laws.
Now, given all the above, lets get to the fine doctor. He may in fact be a fine doctor. He was assigned by the DoD as the personal physician to the POTUS. However, that has dick-all to do with his qualifications to be a manager. Being a good doctor means your very intelligent, regarding medicine. However, doctors hire business managers, office managers, financial managers, and personnel managers. The doctors manage the medical treatments, but someone else usually manages the business and the people. In other words, most doctors hire a manager to manage the business.
Add to the above, that this particular doctor is a military doctor, and has never had to be concerned with managing anything other than limited number of subordinates, which was mostly taken care of by MSC (medical service corps) officers, and senior enlisted personnel.
So, that was the long answer.
The short answer?
No.