Under VA Chief, Effort to Aid Wounded Vets Stalled, Ex-Employee Charges (Only $1 million to fix)

[wellst0nev0ter]

A proposal to keep seriously wounded vets from falling through the cracks of the bureaucracy was shelved in 2005 when Jim Nicholson took over as the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, according to the former VA employee who was responsible for tracking war casualties.

As a result, seriously wounded veterans continued to face long delays for health care and benefit payments after being discharged from the military, says former VA program manager Paul Sullivan.

The program, called the Contingency Tracking System, had been approved by Nicholson's predecessor but died once Nicholson took over the VA, Sullivan told ABC News.

Sullivan said he was told the cost of the system -- less than $1 million to build and requiring a handful of staff to maintain -- was prohibitive.

Much, MUCH more. . .

[Monkeyman]

1. Video is up K&R for post

[robinlynne]

2. I just sent your abc link along with waxman's letter about privatization to

PBS. I was disgusted at watching the newshour say NOTHING about privatization or what really happened, and gloss over talking about "government bureauocracy"...
Damn I'm tired of hearing bullshit.
why is the truth so difficult for the media?

[Bitwit1234]

3. How do you expect this administration to fund something for the public

especially veterans. They need all the money we have for decades to come to funnel to Halliburton so cheney can collect his money from all those 43,000 shares.

[lpbk2713]

4. AWOL Monkey Boy needed that one million ....

to pour in a bottomless pit in Iraq.

[flamingyouth]

5. kick