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Now, some of them can be service connected, and some of them might just be using the va for their health care. so you have all these iraq and afghanistan veterans returning from a war. you have a million veterans in this country that were unemployed, that have chosen the va as their health care under obamacare. and now you have a lot of other veterans who have made more and more claims with the va over time. so what you have is accusations and so far no evidence that anybody died but accusations that people couldn't get in to see doctors, and it seems that that is the case, that people could n...

So hospital officials could cash in on bigger bonuses. let's go to the white house, get the very latest from athena jones. >> good morning, kate. today is the day that secretary shinseki is supposed to give the president the preliminary results of his investigation into the va system. and this comes as a growing number of democratic senators are calling for shinseki to resign. >> speculate about personnel matters. >> reporter: the white house under mounting pressure to give embattled secretary eric shinseki the boot for mismanagement at the department of veterans affairs. just last week the pr...

Until va understands that we're deadly serious, you can expect us to be over your shoulder every single day. >> we should note that allegations that veterans died because of prolonged wait times remain unconfirmed by any official reports as of now. okay. there are now 42 va facilities under investigation according to that report released yesterday. 42. and unless you want to make the case that there are 42 different corrupt little fiefdoms pf shiftless hospital administrators sitting around playing minesweeper instead of helping veterans you have to acknowledge there's a systemic problem here....

I mean, there was a time when under president bush's administration they were short $2 billion. and so it's been hard to predict over the last several years, you know, what the demand's going to be. but there's always been a conversation about fully funding the va versus discretionary funding. look, the true issue here is that general shinseki really isn't to blame at all for anything that's going on. i mean, i'm very disappointed in house democrats this week. >> really? >> house democrats have been a huge disappointment this week. voting for conservative bills to attack workers at the va syst...

We always -- and one of the things that we're going to talk about is the difference between the d.o.d. and va system. >> the va said it is committed to providing the highest quality care to veterans but when pressed they would not speak directly about the case.