Trump’s Urgent Job: Clean Up the VA

Betsy McCaughey,
Last week, Veterans Affairs got caught covering up the quality ratings of its 146 medical centers. VA Secretary Robert McDonald insists. “No VA medical facility is bad or failing.” Really? Not even a hospital that earns only one star out of five?
McDonald denies he’s hiding anything. But he and other VA brass have plenty to hide.
In 2014, the nation was horrified to learn that vets were dying while waiting for medical appointments, and VA staff were concealing wait times. Now new patients are waiting even longer. Recently, a vet with heart troubles died while waiting for a cardiology appointment at the Washington, D.C. VA. Investigators concluded he would likely have survived had he been seen.
Meanwhile Democratic senators are still blocking a bill to hold VA executives accountable for these deadly failures. What’s wrong with firing liars and incompetents? Democrats would rather side with the public service unions that fill their campaign coffers and turn out the vote.
Even so, the VA can be fixed. Doing right by vets was a core promise made by President-elect Donald Trump. His yet to be named VA secretary has opportunities to make improvements quickly, circumventing VA obstructionists and their Democratic enablers.

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