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America's Veterans Deserve Better: 5 Priorities to Fix VA

Friday, May 30, 2014 - 9:00am
The Heritage Foundation

America's Veterans Deserve Better: 5 Priorities to Fix VA

All Washington is speculating on when—not if—U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki will have to step down. And once that happens, all the chatter will turn immediately to who gets to take the hot seat next. In many ways, that’s the wrong question.

Washington is ever fixated on who’s in and who’s out. But the most important question here is: How can we build a more effective and efficient Department of Veterans Affairs?

So rather than start with names, we have identified five fixes all of Washington needs to pursue to get VA right.

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America's Veterans Deserve Better: 5 Priorities to Fix VA

All Washington is speculating on when—not if—U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki will have to step down. And once that happens, all the chatter will turn immediately to who gets to take the hot seat next. In many ways, that’s the wrong question.

Washington is ever fixated on who’s in and who’s out. But the most important question here is: How can we build a more effective and efficient Department of Veterans Affairs?

So rather than start with names, we have identified five fixes all of Washington needs to pursue to get VA right.

>>> Click here to read more