Sec. Hagel : Accountability needed in VA system

Published May 23, 2014 5:46pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview broadcast Friday that the focus of an investigation into alleged delayed treatments and deaths in the Veterans Administration’s health care system should be to “fix the problem” rather than to fire VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.

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