{"id":47586,"date":"2014-05-16T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47586"},"modified":"2014-05-16T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:16:31","slug":"robert-petzel-undersecretary-for-health-care-at-the-va-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47586","title":{"rendered":"Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health care at the VA resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like the VA officials have begun their falling upon swords ritual to save Shinseki according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/16\/top-va-health-official-resigns-amid-scandal\/\">Fox News<\/a>. Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health care at the VA has resigned after the grilling he and the Secretary of the Department suffered in a Senate committee hearing yesterday in regards to the Veterans&#8217; Affairs bosses inability to reform the organization;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The top official for veterans health care has resigned amid a firestorm over long appointment waits, treatment delays and falsified records at VA hospitals. <\/p>\n<p>Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki says he has accepted the resignation of Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health care at the VA. It comes the day after both men were grilled by the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, America&#8217;s war veterans will be just as willing to accept Shinseki&#8217;s resignation, too.Try us, Ric.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ChipNASA for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like the VA officials have begun their falling upon swords ritual to save &hellip; <a title=\"Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health care at the VA resigns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47586\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health care at the VA resigns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}