The Concerned Veterans for America group called for VA Secretary Robert McDonald’s immediate resignation after his remarks comparing waiting times for veterans to waiting in line for a ride at Disney theme parks.
Why can’t we allow our veterans and soldiers to seek private health care and not deal with government-run health care? Photo by New Jersey National Guard
Figures, government officials defending each other. A high-ranking Department of Veterans Affairs official on Tuesday defended the VA’s failure to discipline two employees accused of misconduct, and blamed the outrage over their lenient treatment on “considerable external pressure” by the media and Congress to punish personnel who may not have done anything wrong. Sloan Gibson, […]
As the Free Beacon reported, this isn’t a good thing: A new audit shows that the Department of Veterans Affairs has decreased its efforts to determine the cause of medical mistakes over the course of a four-year period despite a host of scandals, failures, and deaths plaguing the department-run medical centers in recent years. The Government Accountability […]
As the Washington Free Beacon reported: “Two years after being completed, $8-million-worth of solar panels at a Little Rock, Ark., Veterans Affairs hospital have never been turned on, and now the hospital is tearing down some of the panels.” “A chunk of the roughly 7,000 inactive solar panels outside the Little Rock Veterans Affairs Hospital […]