Duckworth Responds To VA Secretary's Disney Comments

Statement

Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08), a combat Veteran who still receives her own health care Illinois' Hines VA Hospital, today issued the following statement regarding Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald's remarks regarding patient wait times at VA facilities:

"While I appreciate Secretary McDonald's hard work and commitment to improving the VA, comparing abhorrent VA wait times to a trip to Disneyland is unbelievably tone-deaf and hurtful to American heroes desperately in need of care. Our troops didn't make us wait before putting their lives at risk to keep us safe, and it is simply not acceptable for the VA to make them wait for the care they have earned. As I urged when I sat down with him last week, the Secretary needs to comprehensively address the VA's systemic problems--and that means reducing wait times, improving care and increasing patient satisfaction."

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