New evidence of mismanagement and delays in veterans' healthcare has piled up, nearly a year since President Obama vowed to clean up arguably the most beleaguered department in his administration.
For the White House, the ouster of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki last May was supposed to represent the beginning of an overhaul to an agency that became a symbol of bureaucracy run amok.
Instead, auditors have found marginal improvements, calling for a fresh round of investigations into why backlogs in disability claims appear so systematic — and why a cover-up culture persists.
A group of nine senators released a scathing report recently, calling for an investigation into each of the VA's 56 regional offices. The lawmakers highlighted findings that VA workers in Philadelphia manipulated data, calling them proof that shortcomings had hardly been snuffed out.
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