Jeff Miller Calls for Obama to Keep Pressure on VA

Pointing to a letter the Office of Special Counsel sent to President Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, called for the White House to continue to pressure the VA department. After reports emerged on altered wait lists at VA medical facilities across the nation, theres been increased scrutiny on the VA department leading to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.

"In reality, the deaths of dozens of veterans across the country have been linked to delays in VA care and other severe department health-care problems, Miller said on Monday. But in the fantasy land inhabited by VAs Office of the Medical Inspector, serious patient safety issues apparently have no impact on patient safety. It's impossible to solve problems by whitewashing them or denying they exist. This is a lesson VA should have already learned as part of its delays in care crisis, but President Obama needs to help reiterate it to each and every VA employee to ensure the departments focus is on pinpointing and solving problems, rather than downplaying them. In the meantime, OMI owes it to Americas veterans and American taxpayers to provide an immediate and thorough explanation as to why it keeps reaching the same implausible conclusions in one report after another."