When Obama finally commented on the VA scandal, he gave the usual “outraged, will investigate and hold accountable” … then asserted that “when veterans do get into the system, they get great healthcare”.
No questions from the media. Not much follow-up.
Must be true since the President said it, right?
Of course, my BS detector started screeching.
Fortunately, the WSJ started to dig and found “significantly higher rates of mortality and dangerous infections at some VA hospitals compared with others” … and compared to private hospitals.
For example, the Boston area VA hospital is rated 5-stars … the embattled Phoenix VA draws a single star.
The WSJ concluded that the Phoenix VA doesn’t appear to be an outlier.
Here’s where things get interesting …
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