Watch Megyn Kelly’s Timeline On How The Obama Grossly Mismanaged The VA

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On the Kelly File, Thursday night , an on-fire Megyn Kelly reported on the chain of events that evidence the cover- ups, and shocking mismanagement behind the VA Scandal.

“This isn’t about another Inspector General report, ” she began.  “We’ve already had three – as it turns out – three! – all ignored. It isn’t about another audit – we’ve had one of those, too. It isn’t about proving the existence of these problems. They have all been well documented – for years.

There’s precious new in the scandal that the president is so baffled by, this month. What we haven’t had is accountability, and follow through.”

She went through the timeline, starting right after Obama’s election in 2008 when he was warned not to trust the wait times. In 2010, William Schoenhard,  the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management at the VA sent a memo to all the regional Directors calling for immediate action regarding scheduling practices – and expressing concern about the gaming of the system.

In 2012, the Senate held a hearing on the ridiculously long waits for care, and a bill was passed addressing the problem of employees gaming the wait lists. Obama signed the bill into law – and nothing was done. Seven months later there was another report showing that the wait times were still unreliable. In January of 2013, Chairman of  the House  Committee on Veteran Affairs Jeff Miller wrote to Sec. Shinseki asking to be briefed on the progress being made on the scheduling issues. In May Miller followed up by writing to the president himself, alerting to “the alarming pattern of serious and significant patient care issues.” Miller wrote that the problem demanded the resident’s immediate attention. He never heard back.

Chairman Miller told Kelly that the agency was suffering from “a systemic problem that is a life and death issue” and can’t be solved simply by removing the cabinet secretary in charge.

“This has been going on for years, and of course, the Obama administration wants to say this goes all the way back to the Bush administration, and that may be true,” Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., told Megyn Kelly. “But (Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki) has been in office now for well over five years and has had an opportunity to make a difference and he hasn’t done it, and the agency has continued to grow.”

Miller said he believes President Obama should have taken a more proactive stance when news of the scandal first broke last month with the disclosure that key data allegedly was concealed at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs center while dozens of veterans died waiting for care. Since then, allegations of neglect and misconduct have been made at VA facilities across the country.

“This is a systemic problem that is a life and death issue, and the president should have come out and immediately said, ‘I will allow any veteran who is on a waiting list to receive the medical care that they have earned to go outside of the VA network and get it on the private market,'” Miller said.

Miller said the system provides quality health care – once you get inside the system. But added, “they have set unrealistic goals, goals that people have unfortunately found to game around the system, and we’re finding some of the most ingenious ways you could have ever imagined, where staff has found ways to hit that 14-day goal so that they can look good, not only up to division, but to the regional office and the central office in Washington as well.”

Was the 14 day wait time goal an Obama mandate?

I’m wondering because I find this curious – Circa 2009, 2010, 2011 – Obama’s juiceboxers and toadies were playing up the VA’s lower waiting times as proof-positive that ObamaCare (sorry – Freudian slip) socialized medicine works.

Via Ace, Krugman, Kristof, and Klein All Praised the “Success” of the VA’s Socialized Medicine Model. PolitiFact rates their hackery: Glittery with Truth.

And the Regime is in their usual cover-up mode – which means – no one can be held accountable.

Asked why he hasn’t joined those calling for Shinseki to resign, Miller answered, “look, getting rid of Secretary Shinseki is not going to solve the problem,” Miller said. “There is a serious systemic problem within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Taking the head of the agency and removing him may be a one-day story, but you still are going to have veterans out there not receiving the health care that they have earned.”

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