The VA shows that government-run healthcare is a terrible idea.
That’s why the MSM is deep sixing the story.
Medical treatment for vets is the most important problem, but VA sloth and failure has far reaching consequences.
Vets who have applied for compensation for svc related injuries have died while waiting literally years for their claim to be processed, even though lawyers for Vets went to court and a Federal judge ordered VA to trim their backlog and get timely.
Our local VA rep got his case closed soon after that, but he had waited 3 years already. My husband filed Sept 2012, passed away April 2013. I took over the claim and it is still pending-1 year, 10 mos.
Obviously, a Fed. Court judgement means nothing.
When it comes to their own, Congress moves quickly. Sen. Frank Lautenberg died in June 2013 and in Sept 2013 Congress attached a check for $174,000 to his widow (said to be worth only 50 million) to a bill being passed.
Wasn't that thoughtful?
vaudine
Gee, haven’t even seen the VA scandal in the msm lately. Every new scandal pushes the previous one to the back burner, by design or incompetence.