Meghan Hoyer and Tom Vanden Brook of USA Today report that:
“More than 600,000 veterans — 10% of all the Veterans Affairs patients — continue to wait a month or more for appointments at VA hospitals and clinics.”
There has been substantial progress made in shortening wait times and the VA has:
… cut the overall number of worst-case scenarios for veterans — those who had waited more than four months for an appointment. That figure dropped from 120,000 in May to 23,000 in October.
Seems that:
Much of that improvement occurred because patients received care from private providers.
