Two years ago, the nation watched in horror as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ wait-time scandal unfolded at the Phoenix VA Medical Center. VA employees were making veterans wait so long for appointments that some veterans were dying because of it.
As the VA and Congress worked in tandem to clean up that mess, other scandals have continued to make headlines around the country: VA executives fraudulently collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in relocation expenses; VA health care workers over-prescribing opiate drugs; VA managers allowing a hospital construction project to go $1 billion over budget.
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