The VA continues to overstate its statistics

More exaggeration of their successes:

The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to significantly overstate its success in getting patients to see doctors for timely appointments, according to a draft report obtained by McClatchy Newspapers.

Although VA officials told Congress earlier this year that 95 percent of appointments are scheduled within 30 days of a patient’s requested date, the true number is about 75 percent, according to the analysis by the department’s inspector general.

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