CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin July 16, 2014 19:54:00
Congress today did a check-up of the troubled va system. you know, cnn first reported how veterans were waiting months and months and months to see a doctor. the new secretary of veterans affairs told us in a committee in the last two months that va has contacted 160,000 veterans to get them off those long waiting lists and conducted 543,000 referrals for vets to be seen by private doctors. and, he says, he is reforming the scheduling system. >> we're putting place a comprehensive external audit of scheduling practices across the entire vha system. we are building a more robust, continuing sys...