{"id":32456,"date":"2012-10-18T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32456"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:34:52","slug":"va-criticism-in-the-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32456","title":{"rendered":"VA criticism in the WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Pete Hegseth of Concerned Veterans for America<\/a> and Paul Rieckhoff founder and director of OpTruth\/IAVA<\/a> have a column in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> today in regards to many of the things we’ve discussed here<\/a> in the recent past about how the Department of Veterans Affairs claims to be doing great and wonderful things to help veterans with the DVA’s backlog of claims, but nothing really seems to be getting done;<\/p>\n

The backlog in claims processing represents real men and women with serious needs who aren\u2019t being served, after they have fought and sacrificed on behalf of our nation. Their stories are heartbreaking. For example, the CIR reports on a Marine veteran who suffered three concussions in combat and now experiences short-term memory loss so severe that he gets in the car and forgets where he\u2019s going. He has been waiting for the VA to process his disability claim since November 2010.<\/p>\n

Numbers spun by the department to feign change aren\u2019t going to fix the VA\u2019s endemic failures. Only urgent and dynamic transformation will.<\/p>\n

Transformation like moving all disability claims to an electronic, customer-service-based model that processes claims quickly, efficiently and accurately. Today\u2019s tech-savvy vets are returning home from combat to a bureaucracy still struggling to get out of the pencil-and-paper age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, I don’t have to tell most of you how badly they’re doing, since many of you have your cases sitting in a stack of files somewhere for more than two years. But at least Pete and that other guy are getting the problem some national exposure. Maybe enough exposure to get it a mention in the next Presidential debate.<\/p>\n

StrikeFO Addition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brandon Friedman responds on Twitter. His Twitter bio<\/a> now reads “former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs” so I guess he jumped from the sinking ship.<\/p>\n

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