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>> reporter: since retiring from the army in 1992, miller has struggled with addiction and homelessness. >> gotten everything from them that i needed to the point even with my addiction, my drug problem. >> reporter: today, hes working to turn his life around. he credits the va system for helping him get better. you an see the doctor when you need to? >> i see him every month. he has hundreds of patients. i can see him. if its an emergency, yes, i can see either him or the psychiatrist on call. ...

A plan that will allow more vets to seek private health care when the va facilities are not available. this is after the controversy over the allegations of the long wait time and the secret face list that they say held back logs that could have caused death to 40 veterans but is private care the way to go? dr. debby is here and she worked at the va for five years and serves on the board. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i think it is fair to say a lot of veterans are okay with the covera...

>> anybody who falsified the records at veterans affairs will be held accountable. >> the inspector general at the va launched investigations into phoenix va and other facilities families deserve to know the facts. once we know the facts i assure you, if there is misconduct, it will be punished. >> my next guest is a physician whos worked attitude four va hospitals and that witnessed some mistreatment. groin me is dr. greenley. >> you have worked in a number of va facilities when you heard these...

We are behind right now. the va is having problems and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> the administration is going to allow more vets to get needs met by the sector. congress passed rules as part of the milwaukee health care and if there were back logs and yet they didnt enform vets of those rights. >> i think it is going to be helpful and also a step that could have been put in place years ago. the providing anyone the access to private health care is a no brainer to me. >> 26 va facilit...

Incident like this makes me as -- makes me mad as hell. >> would you explain to me after knowing all of this information why you should not resign? >> i told you, senator, that i came here to make things better for others. that was my appointment. by the president. >> by may 20th administration officials try to tamp down the alarm on capitol hill. the same day we learn 26 va facilities are being investigated nationwide. on may 21st nearly 6 years to the day after condemning the betrayal of ameri...

>> the inspector general at the va launched investigations into phoenix va and other facilities families deserve to know the facts. once we know the facts i assure you, if there is misconduct, it will be punished. >> my next guest is a physician that witnessed some mistreatment. >> you have worked in a number of va facilities when you heard these stories, were surprised by this? >> well, at the beginning, i was a little bit surprised because of the fact that when i initially started my training ...

To decide what the troop levels will be in afghanistan after 2014. it also comes as this administration is dealing with the mounting va scandal, which of course, the reports as many as 40 veterans may have died in phoenix while waiting for care and there may have been other types of similar instances of mistreating veterans across the country. thats what the obama administration is dealing with as president obama makes this surprise visit to afghanistan. im told that rob nabors just got back. he...

>> the inspector general at the va launched investigations into phoenix va and other facilities families deserve to know the facts. once we know the facts i assure you, if there is misconduct, it will be punished. >> my next guest is a physician that witnessed some mistreatment. >> you have worked in a number of va facilities when you heard these stories, were surprised by this? >> well, at the beginning, i was a little bit surprised because of the fact that when i initially started my training ...

The "washington post." but i think because there are so many va facilities around the country -- havent we all become inured to this, oh, va is a mess, weve all known that. and then i think until we got the secret waiting lists and the suggestions of skullduggery and cover-up, thats what the story had been lacking. >> but in defense of the va, again, going back to all they have to deal with with so few resources, they dont do such a bad job in the aggregate. the marketing studies that have been ...

>> any allegation, any adverse incident like this makes me as -- makes me mad as hell. >> can you explain after knowing this information why you should not resign? >> ill tell you senator i came here to make things better for veterans. that was my appointment by the president. >> administration officials try to tap down the alarm on capitol hill. that same day we learned 26 va facilities are being investigated nationwide. on may 21st, nearly six years to the day after condemning the betrayal of ...