Top VA Health Official Resigns Amid Scandal Over Treatment Delays

[uhnope]

Source: NPR

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki says he's accepted the resignation of the department's undersecretary for health, a day after the two officials testified before Congress about a growing controversy delays in treatment.

"Today, I accepted the resignation of , undersecretary for health in the Department of Veterans Affairs," Shinseki said in a statement cited by Reuters.

"As we know from the veteran community, most veterans are satisfied with the quality of their VA health care, but we must do more to improve timely access to that care," Shinseki said.
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As , Shinseki told a Senate panel then that he was "mad as hell" about reports that delays in treatment of veterans at some hospitals may have led to as many as 40 deaths.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/16/313146627/top-va-health-official-resigns-amid-scandal-over-treatment-delays

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Good that the VA is getting some housecleaning to help injured vets, but the RW are going to have an ODS freakout over this

[Nye Bevan]

1. Why should it only be "the RW" who get to "freakout" over this?

Does it make me a bad Democrat if I say that I, too, am disgusted by this story?

[uhnope]

2. No it doesn't make you a bad Dem. "disgusted" is not the same as ODS freakout

I'm talking about "this is proof that Obama hates our veterans. Look what the Obama administration has done to destroy this country." Yes I can hear Rush and his dittohead clones on all the RW talk shows now

[Nye Bevan]

3. OK, I had a mental block on "ODS". I even Googled it.

Not much help. Official Document System. Office of Dietary Supplements. Open Domain Server. Then it hit me...

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I think ODS is a disorder that only arises in dry conditions.

You never see it in a BOG.

[840high]

5. I'm disgusted. He was going

to resign anyway.

[AC_Mem]

6. I work for the VA

We love our Veterans and are focused on access every.single.day.