No change at VA...More scandals

Written by David DiCrescenzo on . Posted in National News

Publisher’s note:  The endless cycle continues.  The agency responsible for the physical and emotional well-being of our veterans remains scandal ridden and corrupt.  It seems like yesterday that we heard about the cover up of men and women dying while awaiting treatment, but here we are only a year and one new VA boss later and conditions have gotten worse.  

Fox News:  Nearly a year after a scandal rocked the Department of Veterans Affairs, revealing that the agency's centers nationwide were manipulating records to hide dangerously long patient wait times, the bad news just keeps on coming -- calling into question the agency’s promise to clean house.

Ignored claims, manipulated records, cost overruns and even one facility infested with insects and rodents are among the latest issues uncovered by a blistering VA Inspector General’s report. The auditor's probe found that more than 31,000 inquiries placed by veterans to the Philadelphia Regional VA office call center went ignored for more than 312 days, even though they were supposed to be answered in five. Perhaps even worse, claim dates were manipulated to hide delays, $2.2 million in improper payments were made because of duplicate records, 22,000 pieces of returned mail went ignored and some 16,600 documents involving patient records and dating back to 2011 were never scanned into the system.

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