The VA Has Myriad Problems but Funding Ain't One [Y-not]

Over at The Federalist, Sean Davis shows why the VA's problems are not about money.

...VA funding has more than kept up with both medical inflation and increased patient loads. An analysis of budget and cost data, as well as data on the total number of VA patients and the number of acute inpatients treated, shows that the VA’s budget has grown much faster than its workload. Even when you take medical inflation into account, the VA budget still grew faster than its patient base since 2000.

Here's the situation illustrated in a handy chart:

Obviously the Administration and their media enablers will be pushing funding as the excuse for the VA's criminal neglect of veterans. I gather the President already has blamed old computers.

Can the Republicans counter this messaging or not?

Will this scandal finally damage Obama beyond repair?

**OK, this is funny. Tangonine corrected my usage of myriad in the title, so I've changed it. But I was curious and it turns out, it's fine to use it as a noun:

Just a tidbit for our grammar buffs. **

Open thread for politics.

posted by Open Blogger at 04:55 PM

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