And continues, finally, with constant help from the whole present Executive Administration and it's Cabinet when they can with their budgets, while still grossly under funded and the right is still targeting the VA for privatization for corporate profits, like their rubber stamped no bid private war contracts that add to the VA needs!!
If you still tow that political right line in laying all blame on the under funded VA, those served refuse to sacrifice, then you don't follow what's been going on! Not only these past some five years but in the previous decades, and wars of, as the country ignored the issues and waved their flags of patriotism with their representatives, who haven't been doing their jobs, and still aren't!!
12/20/2013 - Sometimes people in Washington do a really good job, but take a lot of crap unfairly. Sometimes it takes a "nerd-in-residence" to start to set the record straight. This is the short version; every topic below deserves longer treatment.
In 2009, Eric Shinseki took over the Department of Veterans Affairs, with the mission of doing right for vets. Back then: VA didn't have the right software to process disability claims efficiently. Vets with Vietnam era-Agent Orange illnesses had a hard time getting claims judged properly. Some Vets and Vet Service Orgs (VSOs) felt they faced an adversarial attitude. VA line workers got a lot of unfair abuse. (Note to self: as a customer service rep, I get a lot of that also, almost every day, so I can identify.) More and more Vietnam vets file disability claims, to get the benefits they deserve. However, it was really hard to get properly compensated for Agent Orange herbicide-related issues. Long story, but the bottom line is that Shinseki designated several Agent Orange-related diseases as "presumptive" conditions, and allowed claims to be made on that basis and approved fast. read more>>>
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