Last year, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki was forced to resign because of the scandal surrounding the amount of time veterans had to wait for care. Apparently, those concerns are still an issue.
CNN released a critical assessment of the Veterans Administration, charging that thousands of veterans in Los Angeles are waiting six months to be seen by a doctor. In addition, administrators may have been fudging wait times in an attempt to mislead Congress.
“The average wait time for a new patient right now is about four days,” Dr. Skye McDougall, the acting director of the Desert Pacific Healthcare Network, Veterans Health Administration, testified before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
But McDougall’s statement is simply not true.
According to the Los Angeles VA’s documents dated January 15, the actual average wait time for new patients at the VA was 48 days. A half-dozen medical and administrative sources inside the LA VA system corroborate these waits.
The delay in care is particularly alarming given the sharp increase in veteran suicides. In Los Angeles, the average amount of time for a new mental health patient to be seen at the VA is 36 days. Needless, to say this delay is alarming given the situation many returning veterans face.
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I would like to see the video that has been removed. It was obviously telling the truth or it would not have been removed. Why is it that our government can not stand the truth? There are so many laws that they very between Democ”rats” and Republicans even within parties they can’t agree. Then there are the President and is people. They are above the law and no one is allowed to question them to get the truth. If they are Black, your Racist. If your Black you can kill a white without publicity, if you are black and kill a black it gets hidden in the back of the news papers. Muslims can complain about anything and the government will change it food stamps don’t have their kind of food, the govt. will go out of their way to correct it. Bacon served in a restaurant, they’ll remove it, Pork in grocery stores but no muslim section. the store must supply it, Must not have it in the same area as non-muslim foods. Our borders are opened wide for any and all to enter, no matter that they don’t have papers terrorist, criminals, gangs it doesn’t matter. We the Americans are not even safe in our own country any more. Who is protecting us while our police are going to classes so they will be nice to the minorities, criminals, rapists, drug lords, etc? Never mind that our policemen/women are being killed because have to learn other languages. They want our police to talk first, never mind that they have to get shot first, it’s only our protector. Wake up! Smell the roses, we’re in deep Sh_t, Obama wants the terrorist to take over America. Start buying your ammo now, before they take it away from everyone, so just the terrorists have the ammo Obama has sent to them. GRRRRRRRRRR! We will have to protect our family, friends, neighbors because the Odumbo will have the military obeying his orders. Thank the armed citizens, former military, police officers etc.
We won’t know what’s in it until after we pass it, YOU JUST CAN’T FIX STUPID! Repeal obamacare completely and impeach Obama immediately along with Biden! Pete and Repeat!