Most Americans blame VA officials, not Obama, for scandal: poll

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Most Americans blame VA officials, not Obama, for scandal: poll

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/most-americans-blame-va-officials-not-obama-scandal-225158692.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tn43IyRHYpcwsZjCm1hTtQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-06-05T225158Z_1_LYNXMPEA54139_RTROPTP_2_USA-POLITICS-SHINSEKI.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Shinseki addresses reporters after testifying before a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on VA health care, on Capitol Hill in Washington" align="left" title="Shinseki addresses reporters after testifying before a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on VA health care, on Capitol Hill in Washington" border="0" /></a>More than half of Americans think Department of Veterans Affairs health officials deserve the most blame for long, underreported patient wait times that may have led to some veterans' deaths, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. Only 12 percent of those polled said President Barack Obama deserves the blame, indicating that the revelations so far have not had the broad political fallout some experts anticipated. Fifty-seven percent of participants said they blamed either VA health system administrators or the directors of the facilities where patient delays were hidden. Just 10 percent of the 1,486 participants said former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, who resigned last week, bears the most responsibility for the scandal.</p><br clear="all"/>

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