Page 43 - Va System News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> 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, he's 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 it's an emergency, yes, i can see either him or the psychiatrist on call. >> reporter: still some veterans say they have not had the same experience as miller. sources tell...

>> and we should point out over the weekend the va has started to make some adjustments to how veterans are receiving care. a directive from the department facilities across the country saying that these facilities are having problems with long wait times need to start looking outside of veterans affairs facilities to provide care to make sure they are getting care. they may be going outside of the va system from time to time in the future, to go after this problem, attack it and try to solve it and it is certainly unfinished business for the president as he heads into the rest of this week. >...

A cynical refrain of delay, deny, wait till i die. what do you think this scandal says about the va system, obamacare, and big government in general? >> it's a system that's inefficient, doesn't deliver timely care to veterans. this is what looks like when government runs your health care. when there is a bureaucracy between you and your doctor. while obamacare is not single payer, this is very much a preview of what obamacare could look like and is starting to look like for more americans. more paperwork and likely delays and rationing approxima inratio. veterans have seen a preview of obamac...

That person was not there again. they told me they would call me. they never did. i called them. when i did, they said they had no record of my information there, personal information, social security number, military after that i walked away and i got silian healthcare. >> doesn't really encourage you to stay in the system. >> let me ask you, you are a u.s. marine veteran. you think this is criminal. >> i do. it goes beyond missing deadlines. it goes beyond fudging numbers. there are lives at steak. there are lives that were lost. one lie is too many. after they admitt deaths being related to...

Fellow veterans go through some of these hoff riff if i crrific it's infuriating to me. >> you had a horrific time trying to enroll at your veteran's hospital just to get treatment. >> yes, you know, i was told by some individuals i should go, i should enroll, be seen, nice and easy, for the better and the day i went down there after kind of mustering up the courage to do so, i was nervous about being involved in the system itself, i spoke to a woman who was not the most professional woman to begin with. she gave me my paperwork to fill out to to enroll and i handed it in when i was finished a...