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If he knew about it, which i hope isn't true, that is not good. but if he let the upper va management, given the misleading information, he's stuck with the problem it happened on his watch. >> i saw numbers yesterday that were higher. i am looking at 27,000 and seeing a waiting time of six months not 115 days. why the change? >> 27,000 comes from a number from april with 1400 on one list and the others on the southwest list. >> the more we find out the worse it? >> the actually ig number is 31,000. that is the 1700 found in a draw and the rest is off the electronic waiting list.

This is a systemic problem and they have been cheating and gaming this for years. >> you say this is a systemic problem. how do you -- i mean, how can you say -- how can you say that for sure? >> well, i guess i can't say that for sure. it's certainly been going on in phoenix for years and talked the people at other vas and told me the same thing. basically when you have a system where if the hospital director turns in good numbers to the vision director, they get ahead. if the vision director turns in good numbers to the va administration, they ahead. if congress comes and asked how's the va ...

Problem. how do you -- i mean, how can you say -- how can you say that for sure? >> well, i guess i can't say that for sure. it's certainly been going on in phoenix for years and talked the people at other vas and told me the same thing. basically when you have a system where if the hospital director turns in good numbers to the vision director, they get ahead. if the vision director turns in good numbers to the va administration, they ahead. if congress comes and asked how's the va doing? numbers are great. so there's absolutely no incentive for upper va management to demand or get good numbe...