The Department of Veterans Affairs just can’t figure out how to send mail. In February we told you about Scott Davis, an employee at the VA’s national enrollment office in Atlanta, who warned that the VA was about to throw 500,000 veterans’ applications in the trash because of mistakes they made. The VA needed more information to... Read more »

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Why VA Accountability is so important By Scott Owens On March 4, 1865 in front of tens of thousands of American citizens, President Abraham Lincoln issued this edict: “to care for him who shall have borne the battle.” That statement later became the motto of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. But the VA has a... Read more »

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has been plagued with countless scandals over the years, with little improvement. Whether the scandal involved the falsification of waitlists, the ongoing theft of prescription drugs, or the intimidation of whistleblowers, it all traces back to a fundamental lack of accountability. Introducing measures to hold employees accountable for wrongdoing and... Read more »

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Over the weekend, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin joined reporters to discuss upcoming changes and initiatives at the VA in the wake of the Phoenix wait list scandal anniversary. So far during his tenure, Dr. Shulkin has made some encouraging comments on accountability for VA employees, choice for veterans, and transparency in his department. Last... Read more »

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Dirty sterile equipment storage areas. Insufficient supplies. Millions of dollars of missing equipment. Unfilled critical staff positions. That’s what a team from the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) found when they investigated an anonymous complaint at the Washington, DC, VA Medical Center last month. The situation was so bad, the team put together an... Read more »

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This week marks three years since the Phoenix VA wait list scandal broke. Since then, VA facilities across the country have been exposed for manipulating wait times, wasting funds, providing poor quality of care, and retaliating against whistleblowers. So was the situation in Phoenix really that bad? And has it gotten any better? Take a... Read more »

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It’s been three years since we learned veterans in Phoenix were forced to wait months for care and many died while they waited on secret lists created by VA employees. Administrators at the VA Hospital in Phoenix doctored wait times to meet wait time goals and collect bonuses. Wait list manipulation kept 1,700 veterans who had requested appointments... Read more »

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Countless Americans have selflessly answered the call to defend America’s freedom and prosperity by serving in the military. Why can’t the Veterans Crisis Line answer veterans’ calls when they need it the most?   That was the question being investigated by the House Veterans Affairs Committee (HVAC) on Tuesday during a full committee oversight hearing... Read more »

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Yesterday the House of Representatives moved forward on legislation sent over from the Senate to extend the sunset date of the Veterans Choice Program. This program, first enacted in 2014 after the Phoenix VA wait list scandal, partially reformed VA medical care to allow some vets to access their medical care in the private sector... Read more »

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Yesterday the House of Representatives moved forward on legislation sent over from the Senate to extend the sunset date of the Veterans Choice Program. This program, first enacted in 2014 after the Phoenix VA wait list scandal, partially reformed VA medical care to allow some vets to access their medical care in the private sector... Read more »

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