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Long wait times at the VA? Read this.

We’ve all been there. Veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs for their health care are all too familiar with the extensive wait times for medical appointments. Average wait times can be from a few days to a few months for needed care.   And even if we’re able to schedule an appointment relatively… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Tuesday, March 5th 2024

#VAFail: Significant issues found with suicide crisis line, leading to calls for accountability and reform

For more than 15 years, the federal government’s Veterans Crisis Line has been a resource for former military members who need an immediate connection to specially trained mental health responders. While the resource has helped many veterans, it isn’t perfect. And, like many top-down programs with no competition, it can take months or years to… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Friday, January 26th 2024

CVA to Congress: Investigate sexual harassment at VA and restore accountability

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a duty and responsibility to provide needed care and benefits to veterans. But misconduct, harassment, and a lack of accountability consistently get in the way of that mission.  The House Veterans Affairs Committee recently voted to subpoena documents regarding sexual harassment in the VA’s Office for Resolution Management, Diversity… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Tuesday, January 23rd 2024

#VAFail: VA denies Vietnam veteran’s claim he was in combat, despite paperwork and injuries

In a time when the Vietnam War was raging, and many Americans were taking out their anger on the fighters rather than the war, it would have been easy to stay home.  But Frank Lagana was a faithful Marine who didn’t shy away from a fight.  Decades later, when he reached out to the VA… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Friday, January 19th 2024

Year in review: These are the 10 worst #VAFails of 2023

If you’re a faithful follower of Concerned Veterans for America, you’ve read a #VAFail or two this year.   But what is the worst of the worst?  From bullying good employees out of their jobs to actively hiding information from FOIA requests to fatal mishandling of care, it’s been a year of failure at the… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Tuesday, December 26th 2023

#VAFail: Veterans wait for care, benefits, while VA officials get bonuses they were not meant to have

A decade after the country learned about unconscionably long wait times at Department of Veterans Affairs health facilities, in some places things have not improved. Other problems also are cropping up. In Stockton, California veterans are waiting months to get medicine. A Hampton, Virginia veteran who went to the ER with chest pains — and,… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Friday, December 15th 2023

#VAFail: The VA is managing community care for unauthorized migrants while actively creating barriers for veterans seeking community care

This may be one of the worst insults to veterans since the Phoenix VA scandal of 2014.  News recently broke that the Department of Veterans Affairs is managing community care and reimbursements for unauthorized migrants while actively keeping veterans from accessing timely, quality care.  According to reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts with the VA’s… Read more »

By Emilye Bell
Friday, December 8th 2023