The Veterans Administration (VA) has apparently altered records to make their performance look better. (Probably for political reasons.)
The trick was to record appointments on paper without entering the the appointment records on or into computer files. And then when the internal audit was made, (Like inspections) the paper files were destroyed, thus covering up those appointments.
The Veterans were told to wait longer and longer times. Some Veterans were in need of care. They did not get the care they needed in time and died as a result of neglect.
I know from personal experience, how that works.
There were improper testing procedures, also. *That was my case. The tests I took did not show I was having a heart attack, due to heart failure. The tests did not say I suffered from heart disease. I almost died.
The public hospital found my heart disease after I had a heart attack. The VA wasn't set up to make diagnosis like that or treat heart failure. All they could do was refer me to a heart specialist.
They went by test results. The testing became a longer waiting period. Sometimes they would tell the VA to give the same tests over again.
It seems like the VA Administration messed up, that's true, but it also seems like people want the VA to be something it's not.
The VA does pretty good but it can't do it all. Veterans need private insurance to go along with VA benefits.
The care for servicemen isn't the same when you leave active duty. If your not service connected, you need private care too.
I believe that Veterans were led to believe that they could depend on the VA more than they really could. And the politicians wanted people to think the VA was a brand new system, instead of the same old system it always was, since Vietnam. But with a face lift to make the politicians look better. ^The war and all...
There's not much to say about the president in the matter. It's like he is permanently spaced out on his own personal hype.
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