Release data on suicides
Unfortunately, the Veterans Administration is a bureaucracy with flaws much like those affecting other agencies in government. Though health care professionals at the VA’s many hospitals and other facilities attempt to provide the best care they can for veterans, bureaucrats within the agency sometimes give it a bad name.
One such situation was discussed during a hearing recently by the House of Representatives Veterans Affairs Committee. Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., chairman of the panel, expressed outrage concerning the issue of veterans who commit suicide.
Filner noted that e-mails introduced as evidence in a trial in San Francisco seem to indicate that some VA officials have attempted to downplay the number of suicide attempts by veterans under the agency’s care. If so, those officials should be fired, Filner said.
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