- The VA itself admitsthat more than a half million veterans are still waiting over 30 days to see a doctor.
- A new independent watchdog reportfound that 215 veterans died waiting for care at the Phoenix VA hospital in 2015 alone.
- An average of 22veterans commit suicide every day and yet nearly one-third of calls to the VA suicide hotline still go unanswered.
Its No SecretThe VA is Still Broken
- by: GilRodriguez
- 2016-10-19
- Source:
texasinsider
- 01/08/2020
Michael Shapiro http://spkrryan.us/2e3ZcJ3
Shhh. President Obama doesnt want you to know this but the VA is still broken.
The president recently asserted at a CNN town hall that he fired a whole bunch of people who oversaw corrupt VA facilities.
The Washington Post fact checker gave this claim Four Pinocchios. That is actually more Pinocchios than senior VA officials fired for manipulating waitlists at agency health care facilities. As the Post notes a grand total of one executive was fired for waitlist violations. One.
Then theres VA Secretary Bob McDonalds claim that 90 percent of VA medical center heads have been replaced since the start of his tenure in 2014. That sounds like a great talking point but a new report from USA TODAY shows this number is justwellmanipulating the facts:
Of 140 medical center directors 92 are new since McDonald took office in July 2014. Thats 65. Of those only 69 are permanent placements; the rest are interim appointees. And all but eight of these directors already worked at the VA.
These attempts to whitewash the corruption at the VA throughout the course of this administration are shameful. You cant fix a problem if you insist it no longer exists. Here the facts speak for themselves:
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