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2550528Washington Examiner:

T. Becket Adams

July 6, 2014

 

The nation's leading media outlets may have moved on from covering the many problems that continue to plague the Department of Veterans Affairs, but U.S. vets are still following the scandal closely, according to a recent Gallup report.

 

The survey, which was conducted from June 16-20 and sampled some 1,268 U.S. veterans aged 18 or older, found that 51 percent of respondents say they are following allegations of corruption, forged wait lists and widespread mismanagement at the VA “very closely.”

 

An additional 39 percent of veterans say they are following the scandal “somewhat closely.”

 

Further, the survey found that 55 percent of U.S. veterans say it is either “very” or “somewhat difficult” to get medical care through the VA.

 

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When VA fails, vets go to American Legion for help

Juan Carlos Llorca

July 7, 2014

EL PASO, Texas

 

A counselor at the local Veterans Affairs office looked at Rebecca King, a victim of domestic violence and abuse who was seeking help for depression, and told her she would not be able to see a psychologist. She looked too nice and put together for someone depressed, King was told.

 

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She is now among nearly 1,800 people who have turned to the American Legion, which has held town-hall meetings and opened temporary crisis centers in Phoenix, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and El Paso. People can gain access to health benefits, schedule doctor's appointments, enroll in the VA and even get back pay.

 

The centers come in the wake of the VA scandal that brought to light long wait times and false record-keeping among other things, and are being established in towns where the VA audit showed wait times were longer. Between now and October, crisis centers will come to Fort Collins, Colorado; Saint Louis, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. They also plan to visit Clarksburg, West Virginia; White City, Oregon and Harlingen, Texas.

 

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A Lack of Funding Isn't the VA's Problem

By Sen. Tom Coburn - July 25, 2014

As VA reform continues to languish in Congress pressure is growing on members to solve the problem with Washington’s oldest solution – more funding.

 

As Garry Augustine, Executive Director of Disabled American Veterans Disabled Veterans, argued recently in the Wall Street Journal, the VA needs “more money – and a predictable funding stream – to do its job.” Augustine and others are right to fault Congress for not doing its job of setting priorities but a lack of funding is not the VA’s main problem.

 

The numbers show the VA has hardly been strapped for cash. Funding for the VA has gone up 57 percent since 2008. And at facilities where the worst abuses occurred, such as Phoenix, funding was ample enough to finance to lavish bonuses for the very officials who should have been held accountable for harming veterans. Across the country, the problem has not been a lack of funds but terrible misuses of taxpayer funds that were already

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/25/a_lack_of_funding_isnt_the_vas_problem_123447.html

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