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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140529:04:12:00

Something, a totally separate system from the ongoing stories is and scandal about the health care that our veterans receive. the military health care system and the veterans health care system are separate systems, but this is all going on at once. when president obama last week first addressed these allegations about the v.a., about staff at v.a. health centers around the country, manipulating wait lists to make it seem like veterans were getting timely care, he said in those remarks, he gave prepared remarks and answered questions, and he said during his answering questions, that something that we ve sort of been puzzling over ever since he said it. this was what the president said about reaching out immediately to veterans who were on these bogus wait lists. watch. what i said to rick today is, let s not wait for the report retrospectively to reach out immediately, to veterans who are currently waiting for appointments, to make sure that they are getting better service. that s so ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140529:08:15:00

And the findings so far from the ig do both confirm the initial allegations and shed light on the scope of the problem. the v.a. inspector general says that he found that there are 1,400 veterans on the wait list in phoenix, waiting to see a primary care doctor, but there are 1,700 veterans who would also like to see a primary care doctor, but who haven t actually been put on the list. the inspector general found that the manipulation of wait lists and inappropriate scheduling practices is white spread across the v.a. health system and it is not confined to just phoenix. these veterans languishing in wait list pergtory are at risk of being forgotten or lost in the convoluted scheduling process at the phoenix v.a. following the release of this interim report today, more than 30 minutes of congress, including more than a dozen democrats, today called for the resignation of v.a. secretary, eric shinseki. and obviously some of those calls for eric shinseki s resignation carry more weight t ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140529:09:22:00

Reporting no, no, i don t even smoke cigarettes. and with that, that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. less than 24 hours after the v.a. inspector general released its report, more democrats and republicans want a new secretary. the recommendations from the report, fourfold. care for 1700 vets not on the list, identify vets at greatest risk, review all wait lists and review all new enrollee cases. syndicated columnist bob franken joins us right now. so bob, you see that list of recommendations. not on that list for secretary eric shinseki is for him to resign. well, i suspect that it s only a matter of time. i mean, the way things work in washington is for a while, a president, not just this president, but a president will stand behind somebody, but at the same time, it would not surprise me at all if there is a very, very subtle, perhaps not-so-subtle effort to get him to resign in a little bit after the heat is off just a little bit. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140529:01:12:00

System from the ongoing stories is and scandal about the health care that our veterans receive. the military health care system and the veterans health care system are separate systems, but this is all going on at once. when president obama last week first addressed these allegations about the v.a., about staff at v.a. health centers around the country, manipulating wait lists to make it seem like veterans were getting timely care, he said in those remarks, he gave prepared remarks and answered questions, and he said during his answering questions, that something that we ve sort of been puzzling over ever since he said it. this was what the president said about reaching out immediately to veterans who were on these bogus wait lists. watch. what i said to rick today is, let s not wait for the report retrospectively to reach out immediately, to veterans who are currently waiting for appointments, to make sure that they are getting better service. ....

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CNN Anderson Cooper 360 May 29, 2014 00:03:00

V.a. system nationwide that has been trying to hide just how long veterans have been waiting for care. it is a report that talks of schemes. record-keeping deception, and 1700 veterans seeking appointments who were not on any wait lists that could get them one. at its core is the explanation of just how veterans seeking care in this phoenix v.a. were hidden away, kept off the books in four separate schemes including tricking veterans into accepting appointments far into the future. deleting appointments. more than 14 days old. actually manipulating data, simply changing dates to fit the v.a. s goals without having doctors see veterans. allegations we first reported more than a month ago when recently retired v.a. doctor sam foote told cnn the number of veterans that died waiting for ....

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