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>> period. >> draper is the director for health care investigations for the gao which has labeled va health care high risk in terms of government management and has done so since 2015. draper says even today the va's wait time data is simply not to be believed. they're longer. >> oh, yes. in almost every case we find the actual wait times are longer than what the va is reporting. >> it has been nearly four years since cnn began exposing the secret wait lists and fabricated wait times and delays in care and the patients who died waiting for that care. it's been three years since congress approv...

Drew griffin. >> reporter: first of all, the scandal erupted when the scandal erupted while veterans were dying while waiting some cases dying while waiting for care. there are makeups. billions spent. and now much-improved wait time reported by the va. that sounds good. but deborah draper with the u.s. government's own accountability office has heard it all before. >> numbers that they're reporting based on their work, they're not reliable numbers. >> period? >> period. >> reporter: draper is director of gao which has labeled va's health care high risk in terms of government management. it's ...

Management. it has done so since 2015. draper says even today the v.a.'s wait time data is simply not to be believed. >> they are longer. >> and almost every case we find actual wait times are longer than what the v.a. is reporting. >> reporter: it has been nearly four years since cnn began exposing the secret wait list, delays in care in the patients who died waiting for that care. it's been three years since congress approved $16 billion in additional funding so the v.a. could fix those problems. since 2009 the v.a.'s budget has nearly doubled and yet the problems and some would say the lies...