[Wash Times] The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care — problems that have turned into a growing scandal.
Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldnÂ’t trust the wait times that its facilities were reporting.
On December 7, 2008, then-President-elect Champ announced he would nominate retired General and fellow Hawaiian Eric Shinseki as Director of the VA. Shinseki was Champ's 'fix it man.' This morning's news reports that VA appointment records are now being quietly destroyed nationwide. |