By Fred Lucas
After the Veterans Affairs waiting list scandal last year, the Obama administration pledged to vastly improve the department, but the agency’s new leadership has done little to improve matters, a veterans advocacy group contends.
Those advocates worry one problem was traded for another. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald — brought in to clean up the mess after the waiting list scandal — has not acted swiftly enough, said John Cooper, spokesman for Concerned Veterans of America.
“Secretary McDonald has done very little to demonstrate his commitment to accountability and reform,” Cooper told TheBlaze. He added, “Secretary McDonald has clearly shown that when it comes to reforming the toxic culture at the VA, he is part of the problem, not the solution.”
The VA has more than 425,000 cases in the veterans appeals system, the Los Angeles Times reported. The report comes on the heels of the department’s recent claims that those waiting 125 days or more for treatment has plummeted from 600,000 in 2014 to 80,000.
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