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People, and so if you have a scheduler and a guy who says, i want to see a doc, and he says, well, he is scheduled up for the next three months and so i will put him on the waiting list over here, and when we get into the 14-day window that is a v.a. requirement, i will put him on the official list, but the problem is that the scheduler can't say, sir, you know what, general shinseki, we can't do this, because we don't have enough docs or people, because the culture of the fear inside of the v.a. is such that people don't dare complain. so you have jgeneral shinseki saying that we need account...

Speaker john boehner shrugged that off and said the president's outrage is no substituted for real accountability. as you say the president declined to fire v.a. secretary shinseki or ask for his resignation. instead he told him he wants a report from him next week about whether this problem is system wide or isolated to a few or a few dozen v.a. facilities. he sent his chief of staff, rob neighbors to phoenix. thats watt first of what are now 26 v.a. facilities, which are alleged to have involved -- been involved in hiding the real scheduling of medical care or other improprietors. aides athe...

Speaker boehner much, but this is one i do, because i think that they are hoping to get the good health care people at the v.a. i was talking to a v.a. psychiatric nurse last night and she is saying that her father who served in world war ii korea veteran tried to get in and experienced the same problems and gave up and said, i am going to go off on my own private insurance in the 1970s, and so 245 the problems are not new, and they are going to take a long time to fix. >> and the florida republican congressmanb jeff miller heads the house veterans affairs committee, and he said today that wha...

The obama administration. georgia congressman david scott is one who doesn't think the president is treating this urgently enough. >> i was very disappointed with president obama today. there was no urgency. mr. president, we need urgency. we need you to roll up ore sleeves and get into these hospitals. >> still a number of republicans, including house speaker, john boehner, are not calling for shinseki's head. they said that won't necessarily fix the problem. >> i've not called for general shinseki to resign, although i have to admit, i'm getting a little closer. but here's the point. this is...

Cozy with this administration has to acknowledge the problem is much bigger than simply the phoenix v.a. since we first raised this about a month ago on fox news, i have received thousands of e-mails, some of them from doctors and nurses and medical technicians in the v.a., from patient veteran victims of the v.a. there's not a veteran i know who wants to be treated as a victim. they're being made into victims, not by serving our country, but by the service they're not getting from the v.a. and it can be fixed. >> so you have written this amazing op-ed, i recommend everyone go to read what you...