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Veterans in Fayetteville, region say they can attest to VA health care delays
http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/article_5d0e87bf-9375-576a-b96c-d5d03ffa3036.htmlVeterans in Fayetteville, region say they can attest to VA health care delays
Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:37 pm | Updated: 6:51 am, Wed Jun 11, 2014.
By Drew Brooks Military editor
Long waits at the Fayetteville VA Medical Center are a concern but not news to many of the veterans who get care there.
A day after it was revealed that the center on Ramsey Street has the longest waits to get a doctor's appointment in the nation, local veterans and others Tuesday joined a chorus calling for better care in the shadow of the military's largest installation, Fort Bragg.
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Robert Anderson, a retired lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran who serves on North Carolina's Military Affairs Commission, said the problems at the Fayetteville Veterans Affairs hospital are not new and cannot be fixed overnight.
"How do you go from so far behind to being all caught up?" he said. "It's an arithmetic problem. There's too many veterans and insufficient medical providers."