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Derrick Van Orden: “How much medical benefits we could give to folks or how many…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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'Has Anyone Been Held Accountable?': Van Orden Grills VA Official On Fraudulent Benefit Payouts

Published | Video Starts at 02:04

And I'm just wondering, you know, has anyone been held accountable to your knowledge? And I know you just got there for this. I mean, imagine how much we. How much medical benefits we could give to folks or how many more of these people we could hire if we weren't spending $900,000 for an individual to get 72 months of training doing I don't know what. So to your knowledge, has anyone been held accountable for this? We've increased oversight over the last couple of months in looking into those cases to make sure that the right things are being done. (02:04–02:19)

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