Well, that didn't take long. "Congress is moving uncharacteristically fast...with the House on Tuesday passing a stand-alone bill that would allow the VA to tackle treatment delays with help from the private sector and the Senate preparing to debate legislation that would enact broad changes for the agency. The developments came one day after the VA released the results of a nationwide audit that found that more than 100,000 veterans are experiencing extensive wait times for care and that about 13 percent of VA schedulers were told to falsify appointment-request dates, further confirming allegations that VA medical centers have manipulated appointment records to hide treatment delays." Josh Hicks and Ed O’Keefe in The Washington Post.
Interactive: Check out this sortable, searchable table that shows the wait times at a VA facility near you. Alan Zarembo, Ryan Menezes and Maloy Moore in the Los Angeles Times.
Something for wonks to keep an eye on: VA docs this week could offer their prescriptions for their beleaguered agency at a previously scheduled conference. Joe Davidson in The Washington Post.
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