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Richard Blumenthal: “The information you gave us is deceptive and misleading…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Senator Richard Blumenthal Challenges VA Workforce Reduction Plan

Published | Video Starts at 00:46

Are you aware, Mr. Secretary, that the VA changed the way it calculates wait times in 2022? The information I gave you is as. Of our current VA system, The information you gave us is deceptive and misleading because the VA changed the way it calculates wait times in 2022. In addition, because it begins in 2021, at a time when a lot of VA patients were coming back to the VA after Covid in 2022, this information is fundamentally deceptive and misleading. (00:46–00:57)

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Asserts that the information provided is misleading due to changes in VA wait time calculations in 2022.

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