News gets WORSE about VA as more than 57,000 patients are waiting for their FIRST VISIT!

News about VA getting worse as more malfeasance comes out during hearings.

VA says more than 57,000 patients are waiting for first visit

By Josh Hicks
June 9 at 12:31 pm

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday shed light on the depth of the VA scheduling scandal and substantiated claims that rank-and-file employees were directed to manipulate records.

The agency said more than 57,000 new patients have waited at least 90 days for their first appointments and that about 13 percent of VA schedulers indicated they were told to falsify appointment-request dates to give the impression that wait times were shorter than they really were.

The information comes from the agency’s internal audit of 731 VA medical centers, which the VA released Monday.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/06/09/va-says-more-than-57000-patients-waiting-for-first-visit/

Everybody stay fired up and hold the administration to the hot coals of public scrutiny. If this is done right, and not played as political games, the veterans who deserve quality care will get the same. Thumbs up and keep the pressure coming and let us all work for a better VA.

Yes but he played Bergdahl card to take news off VA and it backfired tremendously. What comes next to change news stories?