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But the first veterans to be exposed had to wait nearly 30 years before Congress passed the Agent Orange Act of 1991, which established a link between the herbicide and certain cancers and diseases.
[2] [3] By June 5, 2014, Veterans Affairs internal investigations had identified a total of 35 veterans who had died while waiting for care in the Phoenix VHA system. [4] Another audit determined that "more than 57,000 veterans waited at least 90 days to see a doctor, while another 63,000 over the last decade never received an initial ...
The Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014 is a bill that would allow United States veterans to receive their healthcare from non-VA facilities under certain conditions. [1] [2] The bill is a response to the Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014, in which it was discovered that there was systematic lying about the wait times veterans experienced waiting to be seen by doctors.
Eric Shinseki, then Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, resigned May 30, 2014. [5] [6] Senior Veterans Affairs officials reportedly kept secret waiting lists in order to hide the high number of veterans that were forced to wait for months to receive important medical care. [7] As many as 450 senior officials may have been involved ...
Jon Perry, a veteran of the Army's elite Special Forces, recounted waiting "over two months just to get the necessary appointments scheduled" while transitioning out of the military.
By the time retired Sgt. Maj. Frank Brantley died Oct. 10 at the age of 81, the 30-year Army veteran had spent 12 months waiting to enter the Carl M. Brashear Veterans Center in Radcliff. He never ...
As of August 15, VA data showed that the number of veterans who were waiting more than three months for an appointment has declined by half since Spring 2014, but the number who wait at least 30 days remains similar. Reported wait times for repeat patients have increased from 3.5 days to nearly 6 days.
By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan deal to improve veterans' health care would authorize at least $17 billion to fix the health program scandalized by long patient wait times and ...