In its handling of health care for veterans, the VA’s ineptitude and corruption have been widely exposed and condemned. Though, of late, Hillary Clinton has been saying that it wasn’t as bad as all that. In her view, the real problem is not long wait times covered up by falsified records which, in many cases, resulted in untreated conditions leading to … well, death. The real problem is … Republicans.
Comes now another example of bureaucratic ineptitude in the VA. In this case, it seems, the scandal is not in denying people what is due them but spending money – and lots of it – on services which they are not using. As Lisa Rein of the Washington Post reports:
Nearly half-a-billion. Sounds like read money. Until you read further down in the article and come to this:
Making the VA a misdemeanor offender in this regard.
