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The guy who killed efforts to fix the VA is now in charge of fixing the VA
ecthompsonmd March 8, 2007

Bob Woodruff interviewed Jim Nicholson (here and here) and it sure seemed that he said yes when the answer should have been no.    From ABC News:  A proposal to keep seriously wounded vets from falling through the cracks of the bureaucracy was shelved in 2005 when Jim Nicholson took over as the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, according to the former VA employee who was responsible for tracking war casualties. As a result, seriously wounded veterans continued to face long delays for health care and benefit payments after being discharged from the military, says former VA project manager Paul

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Walter Reed – Army is fixing the problem
ecthompsonmd February 25, 2007

Here’s my problem with the whole Walter Reed thing. Everyone knows about the famous Army bureaucracy. One would figure, if you’re going to start a war, that you might want to fix something like this. Five years later… FIVE years later! This isn’t fixed. As a matter of fact, there appears to be evidence to show that there is no attempt at fixing it. The one thing that I think is very interesting is that Secretary of Defense Gates really focused on the fixing the bureaucracy. If he is able to do this, it will be a huge boost to the

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