Report Finds 'Deficiencies' Remain at Veterans' Hospitals

Health care operations at the Department of Veterans Affairs still show "profound deficiencies" and "require urgent reform," according to a report to be released Wednesday by a congressional commission charged with fixing the troubled agency. Congress created the Commission on Care in 2014 as part of a $16 billion reform law meant to overhaul the VA, after an audit revealed that some veterans of military service had to wait as long as 90 days to see a doctor. Some...

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