{"id":44832,"date":"2014-06-28T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post_and_courier_va_review_finds_chronic_failures_sen-_tim_scott_calls_for_\/"},"modified":"2014-06-28T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T19:30:07","slug":"post_and_courier_va_review_finds_chronic_failures_sen-_tim_scott_calls_for_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44832","title":{"rendered":"(Post and Courier) VA review finds &#39;chronic&#39; failures; Sen. Tim Scott calls for S.C. Specifics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As lawmakers continue the call for answers into the troubled Veterans Affairs health care system, including South Carolina&#8217;s Sen. Tim Scott, the White House released findings Friday describing &#8220;significant and chronic system failures,&#8221; substantially verifying problems raised by whistleblowers and internal and congressional investigators.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of the review, ordered by President Barack Obama and conducted by deputy White House chief of staff Rob Nabors, says the Veterans Health Administration must be restructured and that a &#8220;corrosive culture&#8221; has hurt morale and affected the timeliness of health care. The review also found that a 14-day standard for scheduling veterans&#8217; medical appointments is unrealistic and has been susceptible to manipulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140627\/PC16\/140629439\/1382\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As lawmakers continue the call for answers into the troubled Veterans Affairs health care system, including South Carolina&#8217;s Sen. Tim Scott, the White House released findings Friday describing &#8220;significant and chronic system failures,&#8221; substantially verifying problems raised by whistleblowers and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44832\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,103,175,143,149,168,104,114,151,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}