Amid a scandal over delays in care for veterans and forged records at veterans’ hospitals, the top official for veterans’ health care resigned on Friday. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki accepted the resignation of Robert Petzel, the department’s undersecretary for health care. Shinseki asked for the resignation, the Associated Press reports, quoting an anonymous source. Petzel was already set to retire this year. The resignation comes one day after Shinseki and Petzel came under fire during a four-hour hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, in which senators said they were enraged by the problems plaguing the department, including long waits for appointments, a backlog of benefit applications and reports of unnecessary deaths.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 14:47:06 +0000
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