The acting VA Secretary just admitted in a Senate hearing that the numbers it uses to monitor delivering health care and processing disability claims for vets can’t be trusted.

He “repeatedly acknowledged…serious problems with data integrity…”

…then asked the Senate committee for $17.6 billion more…to make the VA bigger.

To solve the immediacy of ‘long wait-time’ and scheduling problems, over the last two months the VA has sent 543,000 veterans to private medical providers…

…that’s the only REAL solution to solve the VA’s problems long-term, as well.

Remember this – the ‘problems with data integrity’ are a result of deceptive practices by senior management throughout the VA…they’re the ones who lied to get bonuses.

Those who reported problems, or tried to help solve them, suffer retaliation by senior management – who want to hide their own involvement and maintain the status quo.

The situation won’t go away by throwing $billions more at it…it’s too deeply entrenched.

Senior managers needed assistance of lower level workers to corrupt data. You can bet the scramble is on to hide or destroy evidence, to avoid prosecution and keep their jobs.

Any effort to get to the root cause of the problems at the VA will not succeed. You can’t save a diseased tree if the trunk is rotten…the VA’s management structure is rotten.

Our veterans’ well-being and lives hang in the balance…they can’t wait the years it will take to cut away at the corruption and deceit in this current, rotten system.

Don’t continue to make veterans pay for government’s failure to honor its sacred trust.

Close down the VA Medical system. Let private medical providers take over their health care needs…it’s the ONLY system capable of offering an effective solution for vets.

THAT’S the sacred trust America owes its veterans.