If Shinseki and his agency can accomplish that, it would be an enormous boon to those veterans who struggle to see therapists, nurses and doctors while satisfying the multiple recordkeepers who stand along the way. It's a huge and worthwhile endeavor, and a big step forward from the benign neglect that seemed to characterize the handling of veterans issues by the previous administration.
It's a huge and worthwhile endeavor, and a big step forward from the benign neglect that seemed to characterize the handling of veterans issues by the previous administration.
And not just the previous admin. but the Congresses as well, controlled by those who still call themselves "Strong on National Defense" as they rubber stamped everything wanted by the admin. and did nothing themselves, narry a thought as they beat the drums of war!! And since the new administration came in have played obstructionist, not only to funding and needs but also to Veterans Administration Appointee's, holding up those much needed appointments for no reason while we still have soldiers in harms way in those two theaters they cheered on and rubber stamped everything for, everything but what was really needed!
VA Secretary Shinseki, speaking in Portland, vows government will 'do better'
"We must do better," Secretary Eric Shinseki told standing-room-only crowds at two appearances in Portland. The Obama appointee said that within 60 days, he will act on a July report linking Agent Orange to Parkinson's and heart diseases. He also outlined plans to bring millions more veterans into the VA system, cut the six-month delay for disability claims and, in admittedly one of the most ambitious undertakings discussed by the agency, end homelessness for veterans.
"We are going to take 131,000 veterans off the street in the next five years," he told the Blinded Veterans Association. "Unless I put an ambitious target on the table, I don't know how we'll start."...........
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