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| What Will It Take To Fix Va Health Care? – Cbs News Posted: 26 May 2014 02:36 PM PDT Dan Dellinger, national commander of the American Legion, discusses reports of mismanagement at multiple VA medical facilities. In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” last weekend, American Legion National Commander Daniel Dellinger called for a “cultural” change across the VA that starts with Shinseki. Roscoe Butler, the group’s assistant director for health care, told CBS News that the agency needs far more accountability. “The secretary, whoever that is, needs to be empowered so that when he’s plagued with issues of people who are asleep…and are not telling him what’s going on, then he needs to go and he needs to put somebody in there that is able to manage the system in such a way that its favorable for veterans,” Butler said. That was the aim of a bill that passed the House with an overwhelming bipartisan majority Wednesday that gives the VA secretary increased power to fire or demote senior officials in an attempt to reduce the red tape that leads to them staying in their jobs once they are deemed to be ineffective. The bill was authored by House Veterans Affairs Committee Jeff Miller, R-Fla. Under pressure to respond, Obama addresses VA hospital scandal Miller’s Democratic counterpart, Rep. |
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