Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday in a personal meeting with President Barack Obama, shortly after publicly apologizing for deep problems plaguing the agency’s health care system that Obama called “totally unacceptable.”
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About 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday. A report cited an average 115-day wait for a first appointment for those on the waiting list.
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Seeking to head off a growing furor over veterans’ health care, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of misconduct at VA hospitals are “dishonorable” and will be not be tolerated by his administration.
Robert Petzel, the top official for veterans health care, resigned Friday amid a firestorm over reported delays in care and falsified records at veterans hospitals. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki accepted the resignation, but critics immediately called it an empty move.