May 30 Watch President Obama accepts VA Secretary Shinseki’s resignation By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 29 Watch Veterans Affairs ‘scheduling schemes’ spark strong rebuke from Congress By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 28 Watch News Wrap: Inspector general report confirms VA hospital delays By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, the VA inspector general concluded that veterans awaiting care in Phoenix waited an average of 115 days for a first appointment, and that 1,700 veterans weren’t on a waiting list at all. President Obama called… Continue watching
May 23 Watch Shields and Gerson on conservative candidates, Shinseki under fire By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist MIchael Gerson join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including primary election contests in Kentucky, Oregon and Georgia, and calls from some lawmakers for Secretary Eric Shinseki to step down after… Continue watching
May 22 VA health care delays become campaign issue By Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The growing furor over veterans' health care moved to the political campaigns Thursday as congressional candidates from both parties called for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to be fired. Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is challenging Republican Senate… Continue reading
May 21 Watch Why is it so hard for some veterans to get care from the VA? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 21 Any misconduct at the VA will be punished, Obama says By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Seeking to head off a growing furor over veterans' health care, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of misconduct at Veterans Affairs hospitals are "dishonorable" and will be not be tolerated by his administration. Continue reading
May 16 Top veterans’ health official resigns over falsified records scandal By Pauline Jelinek, Matthew Daly, Associated Press Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki says he has accepted the resignation of Robert Petzel, the department's undersecretary for health care. Shinseki had asked for the resignation, a department official later said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to… Continue reading
May 16 Congress grows impatient for answers on veterans’ deaths By Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Patience is wearing thin in Congress as lawmakers confront allegations of treatment delays and falsified patient-appointment reports at health centers run by the Veterans Affairs Department. A former clinic director says dozens of veterans died while awaiting treatment… Continue reading
May 15 Watch VA Secretary Shinseki grilled by Senate panel over failures to provide care By PBS News Hour Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki appeared in front of a Senate panel to defend his agency against accusations that a V.A. hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, falsified scheduling reports, and that up to 40 veterans died awaiting treatment. Senators on both… Continue watching