The Patriot Post® · Gibson 'Mad as Hell'

The ghost of former Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki rose up to provide some hard facts on the VA hospital wait time scandal. Before resigning May 30, Shinseki called for an audit of the health care system. That investigation found more than 100,000 veterans – nearly double the wounded Americans in the War on Terror – waited for health care in the VA system. Shinseki’s temporary replacement, Sloan Gibson, said the audit “shows the extent of the systemic problems we face, problems that demand immediate actions. It is our duty and our privilege to provide veterans the care they have earned through their service and sacrifice. As the president has said, as Secretary Shinseki said, and as I stated plainly last week, we must work together to fix the unacceptable, systemic problems in accessing VA health care.” In other words, Gibson is saying he’s “mad as hell.” Like his predecessor, what he’s proposing won’t fix the systemic problems in the government-run VA hospitals. More…