John McCain says Clinton should apologize and says it shows a “total lack of appreciation” of the crisis facing veterans’ health care.
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“Veteran-centered reform will only happen when politicians acknowledge the widespread institutional rot at the VA. With her commentsFriday, Mrs. Clinton has shown that she is part of the problem, not the solution”.
In case you missed it over the weekend, Hillary Clinton made the incredible statement that the problems inside Veteran’s Affairs hospitals around the country, which have left 300,000 veterans dead waiting for care, aren’t as “widespread” as those damn Republicans have made them seem.
The issue figures to be a key one for Jolly, who in addition to filing legislation to expand veterans’ choices when it comes to where they receive their VA benefits penned an op-ed last week in the Washington Times in which he said VA negligence was as much a threat to USA soldiers as those behind the attacks of September 11, 2001. “What we think is great may be subpar to non-veterans”, a group called Disabled Veterans wrote in a blog post shortly after the survey’s release.
Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Florida, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, piled on as well, CNN reports.
“It didn’t have the
impact that we had hoped”, Lynch said of a temporary program that gave veterans “Choice Cards” to avoid long waits at the VA. Lynch supported that program, which was part of a major federal overhaul of the VA after a scandal that stemmed from long wait lists and substandard care for veterans.
“Whether it’s continued delays in veterans’ medical care, the blatant waste of billions of taxpayer dollars, or a rampant lack of accountability throughout every corner of the organization, there is simply no denying that the problems of the Department of Veterans Affairs are indeed widespread”.
Clinton said the VA is a flawless example of Republicans trying “to have it both ways” – “They try to create a downward spiral”.
But Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, or IAVA, called her comments a “head-scratcher”.
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“Because if they exist to support a veteran, then the benefits should follow the veteran”. “I’d like to take her by the urology clinic where 45 veterans were not getting the care they deserved with stage 4 cancer”.
