Via NJ.com:
by Tom Philpott
A report by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general and a separate “access audit” of appointment scheduling practices across VA health-care facilities confirm system-wide abuses to distort wait times for care, which have put patients at risk and shaken confidence in how VA hospitals and clinics are staffed, managed and resourced.
Yet even as the acting inspector general and another senior VA official last week confirmed the depth of the patient wait-time scandal during a June 9 hearing of the House veterans affairs committee, as well as possible criminal activit...
