Congress:inaction on veterans care, "nauseating"

This is a good article but Coburn does not get a pass on this as if he had nothing to do with the problem. None of them do. So when is it they actually apologize to veterans and fix the VA once and for all veterans?

Congress knew of VA problems -- and did nothing
AZ Central
EJ Montini, columnist
June 30, 2014

So, it turns out they knew, all of the people we elected and all of the people the elected people appointed, and the bureaucrats, and the investigators. Essentially, everyone.

They knew that things at the Veterans Affairs hospitals were a mess. That veterans were going untreated. That wait times and appointments were a joke.

They knew.

There were dozens of hearings. There were more than 20 reports by the VA's inspector general and others.

It's all laid out in an article by The Arizona Republic's Paul Giblin.

Boiled down to the basics, it can be summed up by something Sen. Tom Coburn, the Republican from Oklahoma and a physician, said, which was: "The reason vets' care has suffered for so long is Congress has failed to hold the VA accountable. Despite years of warnings from government investigators about efforts to cook the books, it took the unnecessary deaths of veterans denied care from Atlanta to Phoenix to prompt Congress to take action."

It's nauseating.

read more here

Coburn isn't the only one. None of them have apologized to veterans. Not even to the veterans calling their offices over all these years.

In a statement, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), usually an administration critic, hailed McDonald’s experience as a veteran and as a leader in the private sector, calling him the “kind of person who is capable of implementing the kind of dramatic systemic change that is badly needed and long overdue at the VA. But the next VA secretary can only succeed in implementing that type of change if his boss, the president, first commits to doing whatever it takes to give our veterans the world class health care system they deserve.”

How the hell does Boehner have the nerve to talk about what is "overdue" at the VA?
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