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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140625:09:14:00

far. i know. thanks. talking about dozens of whistleblower accounts on the v.a. scandal right now, one from the phoenix v.a. saying she was forced to hide records of long wait times. the whistleblower also saying here records of patients who died waiting for care were recently altered. nbc s tracie potts is in washington. tracie, good morning to you. and how far and wide do these whistleblower accounts go? reporter: well, it s certainly a first-person account of some of what we ve heard already. good morning, richard. pauline dewinters says that she was forced to keep those names secret, but she decided to go public after a particularly disturbing case. i felt horrible for what i ve done, and i cannot erase my role. reporter: pauline dewinters says a manager forced her to keep a secreting waiting list with more than 1,000 veterans. she came out and she did say, if you do not do it my way, i personally will buy you a bus pass to the seventh street bus. reporter: dewinter a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140602:20:51:00

so you re always ready for action. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there s someone around the office who hasn t had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i m looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. short hours, long wait times, according to my next guests, v.a. hospital operating hours are so limited, a lot of doctors are forced to ration available slots to patients need

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140531:18:12:00

reports that said one of the root causes, hundreds of vacancies to fill. what say you to that? that is a huge problem. it s not just a problem for general medical care. we see this across the entire spectrum of care from physical to mental health. it is one of the major reasons that the va does have long wait times, but we can t tell that if medical center directors are lying to their patients. so before we start addressing the business concerns, we have to right the ship at the va and make sure that there is a culture of honesty and accountability. that s got to be the first step. once we do that, we can figure out how many doctors do we actually need and take aggressive action to resource the va so they can hire enough physicians to take care of the veterans that have earned this care. some prominent lawmakers, as you know, including house speaker john boehner have suggested privatization of the va would help tremendously. do you agree? no, not at all. in fact, everyone who kno

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140531:18:11:00

take someone to fix these problems, these long wait times, poor care, et cetera? how long do we think it s going to take, and who might be up for the job? is there someone in particular you d like to see in that post? first of all, wait times are primarily a process. it s a business problem. when you have medical center directors lying to their patients and lying to the va, you don t get the tools to solve that problem. maybe it s more money, more people, more efficient business practices. but this is an incredibly solvable problem. it just takes leaders stepping up and admitting what is wrong. that s what we need to see. we need this culture of accountability inside the va. anybody who takes over as va secretary, we think it should be someone who should either be an iraq or afghanistan veteran and knows the next generation of veterans so that the va can truly move into the 21st century. we need someone who s just as aggressive out in public in front of the american people as they ar

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140529:18:00:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140529:18:00:00
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