Speaking at a CNN town hall about the military, President Barack Obama suggested that his administration “fired a whole bunch of people who were in charge of some of these facilities” involved in the wait-times scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs. That’s not the case.
As of Sept. 22, a few days before Obama’s remark on Sept. 28, only nine people had been fired from the VA for issues pertaining to patient wait times, according to VA documents. Of those nine, four were senior officials at one facility — the Phoenix VA Health Care System

Fired Over VA Wait Times

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Speaking at a CNN town hall about the military, President Barack Obama suggested that his administration “fired a whole bunch of people who were in charge of some of these facilities” involved in the wait-times scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs. That’s not the case.
As of Sept. 22, a few days before Obama’s remark on Sept. 28, only nine people had been fired from the VA for issues pertaining to patient wait times, according to VA documents. Of those nine, four were senior officials at one facility — the Phoenix VA Health Care System

Fired Over VA Wait Times

He says what desperate people want to hear. Like when the doctor says you are going to be just fine but you know better after living for so long and knowing so many other situations where the doctor said the same thing. Do you get a second opinion? Do you check the facts? Do you hear what you want to hear and disregard the rest?

The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,233 health care facilities, including 168 VA Medical Centers and 1,053 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving more than 8.9 million Veterans each year.
If they fired one person from each medical center that would be 168 people.

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