It can’t come as much of a surprise that yet another investigation of yet another Veterans’ Affairs health care facility has uncovered employee improprieties that could be preventing veterans from getting care. This one comes from my home congressional district in northern Indiana:

[A] Peru clinic employee was scheduling appointments for veterans without their knowledge and canceling them on the day of the appointment. The employee allegedly was “padding her schedule with fake appointments to fill her clinic schedule,” the report said.

A review of records from Oct. 1, 2014, through Dec. 21, 2016, uncovered 56 such “placeholder” appointments made by clinic staff, VA said. The practice could have denied veterans the opportunity to receive medical treatment, according to the report.