Veterans Scandal Risks Engulfing Obama -- Financial Times
Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its healthcare reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is facing mounting evidence that some of the hospitals it runs have been keeping two sets of books to make it look as if they were reducing waiting times to see a doctor.
More damning, the department is investigating the claims of a whistleblower doctor in Arizona that dozens of patients at one hospital died while they were languishing on a hidden waiting list without ever being given an appointment.
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My Comment: I have not been giving this story the coverage that it is due .... because it is a big story. Many veterans have already died .... and the fact that we do not exactly know how many other patients/hospitals/etc. have been impacted makes me wonder if what we are seeing right now is just the tip of a very big iceberg.
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