Tag: Veterans

Schumer: Name vets’ cemetery for OSS head Donovan

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 6:34 pm

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Not going away: Vets are still paying close attention to Veterans Affairs scandal despite lack of media coverage

Becket Adams · July 6, 2014 5:15 pm

President Barack Obama, center, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, walk with Procter and Gamble executive Robert McDonald, Obama's nominee as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, from the Department of Veterans Affairs back to the White House in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. If confirmed by the Senate, McDonald would succeed Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became apparent. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

VA says patient access to medical care improving

Matthew Daly · July 3, 2014 10:07 pm

VA medical inspector retires after scathing report

Matthew Daly · July 2, 2014 11:44 pm

Former Procter and Gamble executive Robert McDonald, President Barack Obama's nominee as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, listens as Obama makes a statement at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. If confirmed by the Senate, McDonald would succeed Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became apparent. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

New VA secretary nominee not a health care expert

Matthew Daly · July 2, 2014 3:31 pm

The VA mouthpieces are preoccupied with covering their ample bureaucratic backsides, withholding data, monitoring critics, fending off watchdogs and running constant interference for their corrupt, negligent agency. (AP Photo)

Inside the Veterans Affairs’ spin-‘n-stonewall machine

Michelle Malkin · July 2, 2014 2:56 pm

President Barack Obama nominates former Procter and Gamble executive Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary as he makes a statement to reporters at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. If confirmed by the Senate, McDonald would succeed Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became apparent. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama lauds former CEO as right choice to fix VA

Josh Lederman · July 1, 2014 3:08 am

Allowing veterans to seek health care at private hospitals does not mean the long wait lists they face at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities will disappear.ÃÂ (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Veterans Affairs problems don’t disappear for vets in private hospitals, GAO says

Monica Perez · June 30, 2014 8:36 pm

Starbucks chair co-writing book on military vets

Hillel Italie · June 30, 2014 3:36 pm

Pedestrians walk in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

White House review of Veterans Affairs finds ‘corrosive culture’

Susan Crabtree · June 28, 2014 12:01 pm

FILE - In this May 21, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, about veterans health care. A review of the Veterans Affairs health care system by a top White House aide has concluded that there are "significant and chronic systemic failures" that the VA's leadership must address. A summary of the review by deputy White House chief of staff Rob Nabors says the Veterans Health Administration must be restructured and that a "corrosive culture" has hurt morale and affected the timeliness of health care. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Review: VA a struggling agency beset with ills

Jim Kuhnhenn · June 28, 2014 7:58 am

FILE - In this May 21, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, about veterans health care. A review of the Veterans Affairs health care system by a top White House aide has concluded that there are "significant and chronic systemic failures" that the VA's leadership must address. A summary of the review by deputy White House chief of staff Rob Nabors says the Veterans Health Administration must be restructured and that a "corrosive culture" has hurt morale and affected the timeliness of health care. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

VA review finds ‘significant and chronic’ failures

Jim Kuhnhenn · June 28, 2014 12:10 am