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August 9, 2010 - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cannot remain stagnant. The VA must be in a constant state of progress in order to stay ahead of the ever-changing needs of today's veterans. Becoming a completely user-friendly and highly efficient system is the VA's goal and the last 18-months have shown changes in essential mindsets needed to reach this goal.
Sec. Shinseki acknowledged the VA's number one goal is, and always has been, giving as many veterans as much VA access as possible. The more veterans in the VA, the more veterans the VA is treating and keeping healthy. The VA is on a precipice and must make the right changes to succeed.
The amount of veterans needing help is growing at an incredible rate. At the same time, the VA is attempting to develop state-of-the-art medical facilities. Certain aspects of the VA, however, are still dragging dangerously outdated. With a health care and benefit system as intricate as the VA's, everyone involved needs to be operating on the same page.
In the face of overwhelming criticism for the VA's unbelievable backlog of disability claims awaiting processing, Sec. Shinseki put his focus on reducing these claims. Given the VA's new rules for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Agent Orange claims, however, it is unlikely the VA's backlog with be reduced in any way.
Sec. Shinseki places the blame for the backlog on the non-existence of "lifelong electronic medical records," which follow military personnel to the VA after their time in the military. The VA is the process of developing these records in hopes that doing so will end many of the VA's current problems.
A more efficient VA will benefit everyone in the VA system. The veterans, however, must be aware the services are in place and it is on the VA to reach out to those veterans to get them into the system.
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